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I am debian (sarge) user and I have hotkeys working,
but the suspend key or the suspend process when I shut my laptop down is not working.
I have a dell i600m and gnome.
does anybody know anything about?
How isn't it working? i.e., is it not suspending, failing to restart after a suspend. Either could be the ACPI settings. They're generally settable in the laptop's BIOS. If that's not it, explaining how it's not working might help diagnose the problem.
It isnt doing anything when I shut it down.
I dont have the battery item in my toolbar neither.
Where could I set it in gnome? Does exist any tool for this that I can apt-get it?
"acpid" is the daemon that handles the ACPI stuff in the background. I'm not sure it absolutely needs to be installed for the power functions to work, but it couldn't hurt. As for setting the gnome options, aside from checking the gnome configuration screens I'm not sure. I personally use KDE or a light-weight WM.
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