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Put your Debian laptop to sleep; save power and time
Install origin:
Lenny daily build, 16oct08, net install
Hardware: lshw >
hardware.txt
Installed: dpkg
--get-selections > installed.txt
[EDIT These days, whether I install Gnome or not, I do install gnome-power-manager to handle putting my laptop to sleep. The program will live in your systray and you can set it up one time as you like and forget all about it. The following is still cool, though. I also forgot to mention that the following 2 packages must also be installed: radeontool vbetool.]
Short and sweet, this will take you mere moments to accomplish. The goal here is to have a handy shortcut icon for putting my
laptop to sleep. I want it in the panel (taskbar, menubar, shortcut
bar) on my custom Xfce4 Lenny desktop install and that's just what
I've got. Click that little pic below, on the left, to see my
panel.
The hibernate program is not needed for this and I don't
have it installed. Instead I like to use s2ram wich comes
with uswsusp, which is installed by default. I don't know
how you guys do it, but on my Debian Lenny desktop this is how I
get my laptop set up to be put to sleep.
The /usr/sbin/s2ram --force command must be run as root.
So, I installed sudo for this purpose as I didn't want the
overhead of gksu and I don't want my laptop awakening with a
root terminal staring whomever lifted the lid in the face. Nuh, I'd
rather not have that. So, sudo it is. Go ahead and install
sudo:
# aptitude install sudo
Now, since I like using root regularly (when I need it) and
don't really need sudo for other users, the only root ability that
I will give myself through sudo is the ability to suspend the
machine to ram. Precise control, that's what security is all about.
There are 2 things that I need to do to get my user account trusted
with sudo capability.
- add the user account to the sudo group: # adduser uname
sudo
- add the user account to the sudoers file: # visudo
You need to add the user account to this file as well as the
permissions so you might add something like this:
uname ALL=/usr/sbin/s2ram --force
When you're finished, close the file the normal nano way;
ctrl+x, y, enter.
Now, just logout one time to set your new group permission, log
back in and make the shortcut on you taskbar. Right-click, add a
thing. Just use sudo /usr/sbin/s2ram --force as the command
and choose to run it in the terminal for your password prompt to
work. That's it. Click it one
time to test.
I don't run a standard Debian desktop with the typical Gnome
environment so you may already have a handy shortcut for this. I
run an Xfce4 desktop that I set up light with just what I use so I
am used to making a few little shortcuts like this for myself. This
whole proceedure takes less than a minute and it's only necessary
the one time. Unless you reinstall. --machiner 18oct08
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