[NCLUG] power button & lid actoins in Debian Jessie.

[Quentin Hartman]

I love those older Thinkpad models, and the T43 is one of my favorites.
When I used one (running Ubuntu) there were some Thinkpad-specific packages
I installed to enable some of the hardware functionality. If my quick
re-researching is correct I also had to pass "acpi_sleep=s3_bios" to get
sleep and suspend to work right.

QH

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:06 PM, John Gilmore <j.arthur.gilmore at gmail.com>
wrote:

> An old one - IBM thinkpad T43.
>
> "pm-hibernate" can't do anything, needs to be "sudo pm-hibernate" So
> usually I'll have to enter my password if I want to hibernate. Except
> I found a work-around.
>
> As for which keys work how, I just did a little more testing, and:
> xev shows XF86Launch1 ("access IBM"), XF86Suspend, XF86Display,
> XF86Screensaver.
>
> Volume buttons, power button, hibernate button, and search button
> don't register in xev or syslog, and also don't do anything.
>
> XF86WLAN registers in xev, and works.
>
> I don't see the lid button with xev, and the first thing that shows up
> in syslog on suspend is networkmanager saying it's suspending. (since
> I've modified the acpi scripts to log when called, it's not them.)
>
> In console mode, hibernate and suspend keys work! Yay! Immediate
> problem resolved, I can just switch to console before hibernating.
> showkeys --scancodes give the following:
> Screensaver :0xe0 0x63 0xe0 0x12 0xe0 0x92
> Sleep: 0xe0 0x5f 0xe0 0xdf
> Display: 0xe0 0x56 0xe0 0xd6
> Wlan: 0xe0 0x73 0xe0 0xf3
> Hibernate: 0xe0 0x25 0xe0 0xa5
>
> I don't have an extra monitor to test "display" right now, and the
> others listed work (screensaver, not unexpectedly, does nothing.)
> Volume keys still don't do anything, and the screen keys and
> "flashlight" key still work fine, and still don't register anything.
> The lid button works in console mode, but doesn't show in scankeys
> either.
>
> It's interesting that while VT switching is stopped completely by
> showkeys, sleep/hibernate is not.
>
> Haven't found anything at all that will even notice the volume buttons
> being pressed, but I don't care. I VERY seldom do anything with sound
> anyway.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > What model laptop are you using?
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 6:31 PM, John Gilmore <
> j.arthur.gilmore at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> So closing the lid suspends, that's fine - except it does it when the
> >> computer IS IN THE PROCESS of hibernating. Not good. Usually
> >> hibernates, and the suspends on restore.
> >>
> >> the gnome-tweak-tool claims that my current setting on closing the lid
> >> is "hibernate"
> >>
> >> Using gnome3 failsafe or whatever it does when even it realizes the
> >> hardware doesn't support much eye-candy.
> >>
> >> As far as I can tell, neither /etc/acpi/sleep-suspend.sh nor
> >> /etc/acpi/powerbtn-acpi-suport.sh is getting called.
> >>
> >> uncommenting the lines about powerbutton and sleepbutton actions in
> >> /etc/systemd/login.sh had no effect, even after SIGHUP to systemd.
> >> (SIGUSR2 did cause it to dump it's configuration to the log though.
> >> Maybe I could attach that, but it's kinda long.
> >>
> >> I'm out of ideas, and apparently so is google. Suggestions? (besides
> >> whack the gnome idjits upside the head for removing all configuration
> >> options....)
> >>
> >> Not attaching systemd's config dump, it's 22K lines long...
> >>
> >> It's stupid that I have to use the command line tools and type in my
> >> password to suspend/hibernate
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