I’ve always been unlucky with regards to choosing a laptop that I can install Linux on. If it’s not the wireless card that’s not working out of the box, it’s the video card. Also, I’m still not able to hibernate my computer, close the lid and resume where I left off at a later point. … Read more
I’m using archlinux. It never auto-suspend before a recent system upgrade(maybe I updated the kernel?).
my Dell laptop is subject to this bug with kernel 3.14. As a workaround I wrote a simple script
Is it possible to stop my laptop going to sleep when I close the lid?
CentOS 6.2, 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 laptop. SysRQ is enabled for keyboard input, as is witnessed by:
I have an ubuntustudio 16.10 64 bit on an IBM Thinkpad E431. I am able to launch an app from a shell script, but the next step involves pressing Ctrl+Shift+F10 On my notebook I need to press the button Fn before F10 . I use xfce Desktop. I am unable to simulate this in a shell script. I had also disabled my touchpad but did not help.
The thing is that when an external slice battery pack is connected, the laptop first discharges the internal one. This is a problem because then it is impossible to switch between multiple external battery packs without powering off the laptop. It is also not possible to just disconnect the external battery pack when you e.g. need to insert it into a docking station.
