I have a Dell Dimension 3000, Ubuntu 10.04. I often suspend and wake it throughout the day, sometimes as many as 10. Will this have adverse affects on the hardware's performance/longevity?
View 1 RepliesI am no longer able to enter into /usr/bin without my file browser going bust and my system/CPU/memory/swap/whatever the hell freezing the entire PC and getting stuck for literally 3 or 4 minutes before it finally opens the file/folder.
I dunno whether it has to do with what I notice to be a folder within /usr/bin that contains (according to file browser's count) 2000-plus items in it called /usr/bin/X11 (when I want to go there the same thing happens all over again and it takes me almost 5 minutes just to enter and see the damn folder!!!
What on earth is going on?
I was doing some testing on my CR-48 notebook, which seemed to be very slow wirelessly when running Ubuntu 11.04. I cracked it open and decided to swap out the wireless cards with an Intel Wifi Link 1000 card I had in my other laptop, which is a Dell Latitude. I then began to do some speed testing, using speedtest.net. I tested each laptop 5 times for each card, so I did 20 tests total.
5 - CR-48 - Intel
5 - CR-48 - Atheros
5 - Latitude - Intel
5 - Latitude - Atheros
The results I think speak for themselves. While the Atheros card no doubt *works*, it doesn't work as efficiently as the Intel card I tried. I also noticed if I shut off my wireless security, my speeds drastically improved on the Atheros card. On my router (WRT54G) I used both mixed mode, G-only mode, WPA, WPA2 and a mixture of TKIP, AES, and TKIP+AES encryption. My results were the same across the board unless I took off security.
Wireless Card PingDownload Upload
CR-48
Atheros AR928X405.721.37
Atheros AR928X404.5516.45
Atheros AR928X372.030.39
Atheros AR928X361.9415.95
Atheros AR928X513.2215.34
Dell E5500
Atheros AR928X5512.085.1
Atheros AR928X542.463.77
Atheros AR928X5414.574.83
Atheros AR928X541.973.43
Atheros AR928X563.054.06
CR-48
Intel WiFi Link 10003815.615.37
Intel WiFi Link 10003814.5715.04
Intel WiFi Link 10003719.2913.8
Intel WiFi Link 10003622.4514.73
Intel WiFi Link 10003817.7414.81
Dell E5500
Intel WiFi Link 10005115.574.53
Intel WiFi Link 10005316.065.02
Intel WiFi Link 10005419.183.2
Intel WiFi Link 10005416.374.8
Intel WiFi Link 10005318.674.49
my laptop suspends and resumes ok, however i've noticed that when i suspend, my bluetooth dongle continues to flash, and if i check my phone it says i'm still connected.
surely this is a bad drain on my battery? how do i set it that my bluetooth will disable when i suspend the laptop then restart when i resume?
Ok, I am running a file server that can be accessed throughout the house. I was able to successfully wake from suspend and it works beautifully. Now what I need the computer to do is go to sleep after lets say 30 minutes of inactivity so that I never have to touch the computer and it will use minimal power until I need it.
Anyhow, I tried to set the settings in Power management and the only thing that happens is the display turns off. the suspend on the desktop works fine, I can type in sudo pm-suspend and that works fine. but the computer just wont go to suspend automatically by way of the power manager.
I have tried changing the /etc/pm/config.d/00sleep_module to say SLEEP_MODULE="uswsusp", but that only made the computer go into some crazy linux mode that I had to reboot from. I had to change SLEEP_MODULE="kernel" (actually, I left it blank as it is the default).
I also turned off my screensaver so there wouldn't be any confusion from that.
I also ran cat /var/log/pm-powersave.log and I got a long list with the following being one of the main texts that kept repeating. "/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/sched-powersave false:**sched policy powersave OFF"
Everytime I try to suspend CentOS 5.5 the keyboard, mouse, and monitor will all suspend, but the computer itself will not. All the computer does is sit there with the fans still running. I cannot bring it back with the keyboard or mouse. I am forced to hard reboot and when GNOME loads it says something about the resume failing. I don't know what could be causing this. I have the latest NVIDIA drivers. My computer does suspend in Windows 7.
My computers specs are:
CPU: Intel e6320 overclocked to 3.00 GHz
Motherboard: Asus P5K3 Deluxe
RAM: 3GB Kingston HyperX DDR3
GPU: EVGA NVIDIA 7800GTX
What happened:- I run out of battery (laptop)- I believe Kubuntu tried to suspend to disk, but that failed, the system froze- after reboot the system tray applet just told "network manager disabled" How do I fix this ??.. I tried but after entering the second line of code it says no such file/directory exist...
Code:
service network-manager stop
rm /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state
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i have set up a laptop running maverick as server but the problem is that when i put down the screen ubuntu suspends my laptopwhat should i do??
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow can you do that in lubuntu 10.04? In xubuntu 9.10 I could do that, if I use gnome-power-manager and gnome-screensaver, and use gnome-power-manager's icon to suspend/hibernate, but I don't see that kind of option in lubuntu.
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View 1 Replies View Relatedat home I use a computer running OpenSuse 10.2 to serve as an NFS server. I can mount the relevant nfs shares from my laptop running Slackware64 13.1, but there is an issue related to suspending the laptop to RAM: If the laptop is suspended to RAM (or disk) while it is connected to the network everything works fine. But if the network connection is cut before the suspend, it seems that the suspend scripts from slackware or the kernel or whatever blocks the whole system, so that suspend "never" happens. (Ok, it will actually work, but only after several minutes, resume will work fine anyway).
Is there a way to "normally" suspend the laptop to RAM even with active NFS mounts and a cut network connection?
I would like to be able to suspend to disk or Ram from the command line. I can do it with the package 'hibernate' which works well, but it needs to be run as root:
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Do you know if there is any way that I can make this script run by normal users?
I am using a minimal version of 9.04 with openbox.
These forums have been my bible ever since I switched from windows to ubuntu... especially because I was so scared that my laptop was always hot (if you know how to change the temperatures at which HP dv7 laptop fans start kicking the hell in- let me know!). 10.10 has improved this so I'm really really happy with this. Seriously love Ubuntu. Okay, enough for intros.
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I want to run this after resuming from suspending. I've been successful in running the script on startup but couldn't do anything about resuming from suspending with these methods [URL] and every other in the forums. By the way, these commands enable Two-Finger Scrolling (doesn't work if you put both your fingers in an horizontal line or vertical).
I've just installed new Debian 8 from live CD, lxed. The problem is urgent, I cannot do anything on my laptop, the computer keeps on suspending/hibernating every 30 seconds or so.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a problem with my computer running debian testing with kde. When after a while I'm away form keyboard my screen turn off for power saving, but I cannot in any way turn it on again.
I tried moving mouse, pressing some key, Ctrl + Alt + Del, Ctrl + Alt + BackSpace, Ctrl + Alt + Esc, and also Ctrl+Alt+F1/2/ecc.. No way. I had to reset my computer every time.
I can't suspend my laptop because after suspending the system and pressing the power button I only get a black screen. As Debian wiki suggests, if CapsLock LED works the system is still running, which is not my case. I don't know why the system doesn't get back control.
No matter if I press Fn+Sleep keys, go to the Xfce menu, or type:
Code: Select all$ pm-suspend
$ systemctl suspend
Anyhow I get the same result.
I've already followed some other posts but they didn't solve my problem:
Upgrade/update ruined suspend/hibernate in Jessie
Debian 8 resume issue (ATI card)
It's tough to debug since I need to restart the laptop everytime I try.
I currently have fedora 15 installed along side windows 7 on my acer aspire d250. So far it runs great, however I was wondering if there is a way to make fedora 15 hibernate after being in suspend for a period of time, just like windows 7 does. This make sense to me as there is no point in wasting battery life if i can hibernate, but I don't want to hibernate all the time, just suspend for a period of time, like 2 hours, in case I need my netbook again i have quick access to it.
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI installed 11.04 on a t420 Thinkpad, and sometimes it suspends normally, but sometimes it cuts to a black screen with white text (attached) and won't finish suspending, making me do a hard reboot.
I tried to fix it by using s2ram, but that did not solve my problem.
I'm using xfce, and the power manager settings, to only lock the screen when close, are not honored. The laptop suspends, no matter what, when closed. Is there a way to forcibily only allow xfce power manager to handle the close lid behavior?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI think my USB mouse randomly suspends, at the very least it freezes. It is plugged into a USB switch, I have to either unplug the mouse and plug it back in, or switch it to a different computer for it to come back, sometimes it freezes within seconds again.
How can I resolve this. I looked at [URL] ...., but had problems following the folder hierarchy.
NOTE: laptop-mode-tools, powertop NOT installed.
lsusb reveals:
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Select allBus 003 Device 010: ID 046d:c50e Logitech, Inc. Cordless Mouse Receiver
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 1.10
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
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I'm not sure where I can find Bus 003 Device 010 to check 'power/control' for 'auto'.
I currently have the Ubuntu 32 bit 9.10 installed on my laptop. I wanted to install WinXP 64 bit using VirtualBox. My question is: will WinXP 64 bit run faster on Ubuntu 64 bit than it will run on Ubuntu 32 bit (my current OS)? Is the upgrade from Ubuntu 32 bit to Ubuntu 64 bit worth it for running a virtual Windows XP 64 bit?
View 3 Replies View Relatedaccording to this article i read, its definitely faster. this is what i read: Since 64-bit systems can process twice as many instructions per second as a comparable 32-bit system, 64-bit systems are definitely faster than their 32-bit counterparts. it was from this article link: [URL]... Is this true? I always thought it wouldnt make a difference, besides more memory addressing?
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