A confusion about hibernate and suspend.

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Anoop Chandran wrote:

> On 1/8/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> 
>> As I get older I suffer from memory blanks. On a laptop how to you wake
>> the machine up after a hibernate or a suspend? I thought I knew but I
>> guess not.
>
>
> Mine wakes up when i press the power button
> or when the laptop lid is opened.
>
> I have an IBM Thinkpad T43p.
> Was this the right answer? :-D

On my T41 with FC < 6, waking from suspend with the power button would 
cause the machine to wake up and immediately shut down 8^(.  I got in the 
habit of waking up by pressing the Fn key, but I think any key will work. 
More recent versions of gnome-power-manager may be better about this--I 
haven't tried recently.  Opening the lid should work too, if you closed 
it.

For hibernation, the power button is the way to go (but I haven't gotten 
mine to wake reliably without hanging, so I don't do that too often...).

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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