closing lid on laptop suspends it

closing lid on laptop suspends it

[Brian J. Murrell]

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I have a Toshiba Tecra M9 laptop running a 2.6.31 kernel.

I'm not even sure if this is really the correct list, but if not,
hopefully somebody can give me a gentle shove in the right direction.

The problem I'm having with this laptop is that once it has booted up,
prior to logging into the gnome desktop, if I (open if not already
opened and then) close the lid, it suspends, even when plugged into AC.

If I log into gnome, my gnome-power-manager preferences are applied and
closing the lid with AC plugged in only blanks the screen, it does not
suspend the laptop.

Additionally, after this suspend-on-lid-close operation, I get the
following complaints on the kernel message buffer:

Feb  8 12:33:58 brian-laptop kernel: [14735.616976] NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed
Feb  8 12:34:03 brian-laptop kernel: [14739.756068] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0x38:1096)
Feb  8 12:34:03 brian-laptop kernel: [14739.756075] NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed
Feb  8 12:34:07 brian-laptop kernel: [14744.044665] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0x38:1096)
Feb  8 12:34:07 brian-laptop kernel: [14744.044671] NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed
Feb  8 12:34:11 brian-laptop kernel: [14748.200786] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0x38:1096)

and the graphic display is no longer working.  The above of course may
or may not be related, but might just be a casualty of some other
problem.  I just offer it in hopes that it provides more clue as to what
is going on.

Thots?

b.



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Re: closing lid on laptop suspends it

[Robert Hancock]

On 02/09/2010 06:33 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> I have a Toshiba Tecra M9 laptop running a 2.6.31 kernel.
>
> I'm not even sure if this is really the correct list, but if not,
> hopefully somebody can give me a gentle shove in the right direction.
>
> The problem I'm having with this laptop is that once it has booted up,
> prior to logging into the gnome desktop, if I (open if not already
> opened and then) close the lid, it suspends, even when plugged into AC.
>
> If I log into gnome, my gnome-power-manager preferences are applied and
> closing the lid with AC plugged in only blanks the screen, it does not
> suspend the laptop.

I suspect there's some power management task running even before login 
that's using some default preferences. The kernel doesn't trigger a 
suspend by itself.

>
> Additionally, after this suspend-on-lid-close operation, I get the
> following complaints on the kernel message buffer:
>
> Feb  8 12:33:58 brian-laptop kernel: [14735.616976] NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed
> Feb  8 12:34:03 brian-laptop kernel: [14739.756068] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0x38:1096)
> Feb  8 12:34:03 brian-laptop kernel: [14739.756075] NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed
> Feb  8 12:34:07 brian-laptop kernel: [14744.044665] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0x38:1096)
> Feb  8 12:34:07 brian-laptop kernel: [14744.044671] NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed
> Feb  8 12:34:11 brian-laptop kernel: [14748.200786] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0x38:1096)
>
> and the graphic display is no longer working.  The above of course may
> or may not be related, but might just be a casualty of some other
> problem.  I just offer it in hopes that it provides more clue as to what
> is going on.

Those messages come from the NVIDIA binary driver, we have no way of 
knowing what they mean - only they can likely help you with them..

Re: closing lid on laptop suspends it

[Brian J. Murrell]

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On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 12:31 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: 
> 
> I suspect there's some power management task running even before login 
> that's using some default preferences. The kernel doesn't trigger a 
> suspend by itself.

Just to tie up loose ends, yes, indeed, it was a power manager,
gnome-power-manager, started by gdm that was at fault here.  The problem
is that the default policy for g-p-m is to suspend on lid close, even
when plugged into AC.  One has to jump through a hoop or two to change
the gdm user's policy so that it overrides the default policy.

Thanx for the help!

b.


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