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   Peter Weilbacher to Peter Weilbacher   
   Re: Can't put laptop to sleep any more   
   09 Nov 07 18:22:09   
   
   From: newsspam@weilbacher.org   
      
   On 26.10.2007 12:39, Peter Weilbacher wrote:   
      
   > Since my last updates, I can't seem to get my laptop to suspend   
   > any more, neither to disk or to RAM. Before I just used   
   > "acpitool -s" to put it to sleep and "hibernate", but now both   
   > of the commands initialize the process (i.e. switch to the console)   
   > but then obviously hang. I waited several minutes before I then   
   > had to hard reboot the machine.   
      
   Found the solution myself today. The fglrx kernel module keeps   
   the system from suspending. Calling modprobe -r fglrx in my scripts   
   before the actual acpitool or hibernate command help. :-)   
      Peter.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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