auto-hibernate

schlabs · 10-17-2009, 11:34 AM

Hi everyone.
I am having a little trouble. In order to save energy i need put a worksation (Suse 10.1) into hibernate mode. This work fine.

But now i want auto-ibernate after 30 min of idle.
googling i found a way to do with "who -a" (i don probe yet), but i put "watch who -a" and dont show the X session idle time, only ttys inactive time.

I someone have any clue, il appreciate.Regards

jschiwal · 10-17-2009, 11:46 AM

Which desktop do you use. There usually is a powersave applet for that. A generic method could be to use an X screen saver which might be configurable for that. I'm not certain if the "DPMS" section of xorg.conf if just for the monitor, but if you have an external monitor you will want to read up on this section's options: "BlankTime", "StandbyTime", "SuspendTime" and "OffTime".

You may find this ACPI action script written for the thinkpad a useful guide:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ACPI_a...imized_for_R51

So Google terms you can search for are Linux DPMS ACPI "action script".

Good Luck!

schlabs · 10-17-2009, 01:17 PM

Thanks for the response, but is not exactly my need. i am looking get the same function that kpowersave but executing my own hibernate script. (that work fine for me).

Equally is an interesting point

schlabs · 10-19-2009, 07:44 AM

This is the script that i am using. Write here if some of you need it can grabit

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# discover video card's ID
ID=`lspci | grep VGA | awk '{ print $1 }' | sed -e 's@0000:@@' -e 's@:@/@'`

# securely create a temporary file
#TMP_FILE=`mktemp /var/tmp/video_state.XXXXXX`trap 'rm -f $TMP_FILE' 0 1 15
TMP_FILE=`mktemp /var/tmp/video_state.XXXXXX`
trap 'rm -f $TMP_FILE' 0 1 15
#TMP_FILE='/var/tmp/video_state.sch'

# switch to virtual terminal 1 to avoid graphics corruption in X
chvt 2

# dump current data from the video card to the temporary file
cat /proc/bus/pci/$ID > $TMP_FILE

# write all unwritten data (just in case)
sync

# suspend
#echo -n mem > /sys/power/state
echo -n disk > /sys/power/state
 

# restore video card data from the temporary file on resume
cat $TMP_FILE > /proc/bus/pci/$ID

# switch back to virtual terminal 7 (running X)
#chvt 7

# remove temporary file
rm -f $TMP_FILE