How to wake up my laptop

[Phil Meyer]

Andrew Robinson wrote:
> With Fedora Core 4, my laptop would not go to sleep when closed, and I 
> never got around to worrying about it. Now that I have installed FC6, 
> the laptop does go to sleep when closed. However, I haven't found the 
> key combination that will wake it back up. Anyone know what that 
> should be? Does it vary with the model of laptop?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Andrew Robinson
>
You are now dealing with two types of 'sleep'.

1. Suspend to RAM (suspend).  This is the default behavior from all of 
the gnome power settings.  It is also probably not what you expected, 
and in your case its is probably simply not working with the modules you 
have loaded.  Some of the problem modules are: ndiswrapper, fglrx, 
nvidia, and usbserial if there is an active connection.

These may seem obvious, but the default setting in the gnome power 
management is suspend to RAM on lid close.  I suggest you go into 
preferences and turn all those off.

Suspend to RAM uses a small amount of power to keep the 'state' of the 
system in RAM.  This causes the power light on your laptop to blink on 
and off slowly.  Recovery fron suspend to RAM is quite fast, and alot 
faster than recovery from suspend to disk.

2. Suspend to disk (hibernate).  This is probably what you would intend 
to happen, (but maybe not on every lid close) and will probably work.  
Again, there are some modules that may cause issues.

There are a couple of settings in the power management preferences that 
should be set to 'hibernate' rather than suspend.

Hibernate can also be chosen from the logout menu.

Recovery from both suspend methods, if working, is to simply hit the 
power button.

Good luck!