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Fn-F4 key doesn't suspend thinkpad x40

Bug #185305 reported by Manuel Siggen
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Bug Description

With current hardy development, pressing the Fn-F4 on my IBM thinkpad X40 doesn't suspend the machine. The suspend-to-ram works fine if ran from the "Log Out.." -> "Suspend" menu.

When I press the Fn-F4 key, the following log appears in /var/log/acpid (pressed the key a couple of time) :

msi@x40:~$ tail -f /var/log/acpid
[Wed Jan 23 11:02:31 2008] action exited with status 0
[Wed Jan 23 11:02:31 2008] completed event "ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001004"
[Wed Jan 23 11:02:31 2008] received event "ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001004"
[Wed Jan 23 11:02:31 2008] notifying client 4761[107:114]
[Wed Jan 23 11:02:31 2008] notifying client 6228[0:0]
[Wed Jan 23 11:02:31 2008] executing action "/etc/acpi/sleepbtn.sh"
[Wed Jan 23 11:02:31 2008] BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES
[Wed Jan 23 11:02:31 2008] END HANDLER MESSAGES
[Wed Jan 23 11:02:31 2008] action exited with status 0
[Wed Jan 23 11:02:31 2008] completed event "ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001004"
[Wed Jan 23 11:02:46 2008] received event "ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001004"
[Wed Jan 23 11:02:46 2008] notifying client 4761[107:114]
[Wed Jan 23 11:02:46 2008] notifying client 6228[0:0]
[Wed Jan 23 11:02:46 2008] executing action "/etc/acpi/sleepbtn.sh"
[Wed Jan 23 11:02:46 2008] BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES
[Wed Jan 23 11:02:46 2008] END HANDLER MESSAGES
[Wed Jan 23 11:02:46 2008] action exited with status 0
[Wed Jan 23 11:02:46 2008] completed event "ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001004"

Let me know if there is something I can do to solve this issue, thanks !

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Chris Jones (cmsj) wrote :

I have an X40 running Hardy, updated to the latest packages as of today and Fn-F4 works for me.
Is gnome-power-manager configured to suspend when you press the suspend button?
Does suspending work if you close the lid? (with g-p-m configured for that as well)

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Manuel Siggen (manuel-siggen) wrote :

Thanks for you answer !

I'm on Kubuntu, so I cannot use g-p-m. The Kubuntu equivalent (I don't know its name, the title bar just says "Power Manager") doesn't show the same options as g-p-m : there is no way to define the behavior of the suspend button (or I didn't look at it long enough). But it's possible to define the 'lid close' behavior and I configured it to suspend-to-ram.

I updated to the latest package a couple of minutes ago (and rebooted because HAL died and didn't not restarted fully), but the Fn+F4 key still does nothing when pressed. Closing the lid does nothing (but the screen is correctly locked). I reproduced the problem in both 'battery' and 'power adapter' mode.

Any other idea ?

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Manuel Siggen (manuel-siggen) wrote :

I explored the shell script which is launched when pressing Fn+F4, and I eventually found the 162472 bug report which seems to confirm my findings :-)

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