Re: apm / standby
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 11:07:39PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> After a certain amount of time of inactivity, I get the following error:
>
> apm: set display standby: Unable to enter requested state
>
> Any ideas where this error comes from?
Don't know.
> Second thing, since the X servers cannot restore properly after a suspend,
> I want to tell my laptop to go to vt1 (`chvt 1`) just before it is
> suspended or enters sleep mode, if it is currently in X. I tried to play
> with `tty`, comparisons, ||, && and `chvt 1` in a bash script in
> /etc/apm/event.d, but due to my lack of a solid understanding of
> comparisons/"if statements" in bash scripts I was unable to get it working
> correctly. I suppose I should also have checked the first parameter... at
> the moment my laptop switches to vt 1 at any event, even pluggin in/out
> the power...
My laptop won't recover if it suspends from X either. I force the laptop to
switch to vt 1 when it suspends.
/etc/apm/event.d/01chvt:
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#!/bin/sh
# change to vt1 when suspending to keep X from locking
if [ "$1" = suspend ]; then
chvt 1
fi
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Alantro Communications lee@alantro.com
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