laptop won't sleep after switching to 'openrc'
 

i installed 'openrc' and removed 'systemd' for my debian8 on thinkpad.

however, laptop now won't go to sleep after closing the lid.

I hate to break it to you, but you aren't supposed to replace systemd on Debian. For OpenRC you might want to try Gentoo/Funtoo, Alpine or any kind of a flexible distribution (i.e. that doesn't have systemd).

Debian 8 it's still officially possible to remove SystemD to run another init. While systemd is the default, they still have SysVinit and they are still ofifially support systemd-less installs.

No one wants to have pain in their arses though.

thanks! PowerManagement on debian8 is tied with systemD
'systemctl suspend' won't work

i use commands below to put laptop to sleep:

echo -n mem >/sys/power/state

to suspend to ram and

echo -n disk >/sys/power/state

to suspend to disk.