I just installed a fresh openSUSE 12.3 and everything seems good for now. The only problem I encountered is when I press the power button, the computer won’t sleep/suspend. I can put it into sleep mode using the KDE menus, and that works fine, and after using the KDE menus for the first time suspending it the hardware buttons start to work. It’s not a HUGE issue, but I just wanted to know if anyone else had this problem, how they fixed it, or if others had a problem I could just submit a bug report.
What I don’t get is whether the working situation persist after a reboot. If all is well after a reboot, then it’s not real bug,
I forgot to mention that. After a reboot and a complete shutdown it goes back to the way it was. It requires a software suspend first from KDE. The power button doesn’t suspend it and closing the lid on the laptop won’t suspend it (until after the software suspend, that is.)
I have double checked the settings in KDE’s power control program and everything it set up properly.
I have a similar problem on an OpenSUSE 12.3 which was upgraded from 12.2 with zypper.
On my installation, the power button always shuts the system down, no matter what I set in KDE’s power settings.
As a TW user I made zypper dup, the upgrade to OS12.3 looks OK so far, but a hardware button does not work - there is always power off. A command s2ram -f works, Leave - Sleep works too.
I have a similar problem after upgrading to OpenSUSE 12.3 from 12.2. That is, the power button always shuts the system down, no matter how I set my power button option in KDE’s Power Management settings.
I also have another power related issue. That is, if I try to shutdown my laptop using the GUI shutdown icons then it takes a VERY LONG time to shutdown. I would say an extra 60 to 90 seconds. Whereas, if I shutdown from the command line using “shutdown now” (or reboot with “shutdown -r now”) then it happens quickly as it did in OpenSUSE 12.2
FYI,
Gordon
There is an OpenSUSE bug report with an easy solution to the power button problem where the power button always shuts the system down no matter which power button setting is selected in KDE’s Power Management settings.
The acpi event handling is getting in the way of the KDE Power manager. Disabling acpi fixes it.
Edit /etc/acpi/events/power_button to read:
care about the power button
event=button/power.*
#action=/usr/lib/acpid/power_button
action=/bin/true
Then reboot your system.
See: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810125
FYI,
Gordon
Has this been acknowledged as a bug? I submitted mine as a bug report. Still no update for it yet. I just hope it isn’t a new feature in the kernel that will be something ongoing regardless of distro.
I upgraded PC from from 12.2 to 12.3 last week:
Sleep(Suspend) no longer works from anywhere (keyboard “Sleep” button or menu)
- goes to screen (session) lock screen
Power button now works for powering off (did not work in 12.2)
Did not try Hibernate (as it did not work in 12.2)
During boot,
Screen goes blank for along time (about 1 minute, monitor power button goes to ‘sleep’ mode), then boots.
Boot is very slow (compared to 12.2)
On the plus side, the video is now (mostly) smooth in full screen playback (i.e. youtube - full screen/flash)
I also now have 2 different kernel versions to boot in the menu, 3.4 and 3.7
Not sure how this happened.
My first post!!
I just switched from Kubuntu 12.10 to OpenSUSE 12.3. Everything seems to work except, as with others here, the power buttons and lid-close seem not to work at all; it is as if the system is unaware of of the power button/lid-close event. But if I to pm-suspend from the CLI as root, everything works until I reboot, then I am back to the previous problem.
It seems to me the drivers are working, but need to be “woken up” befire they can actually interact with the hardware.
My system is a System76 Gazell Pro 64bit. Everything worked with Kubuntu, so I wonder if there is an issue with the ACPI settings. Unfortunately I am not too familiar with ACPI.
On 2013-04-01 19:36, jchufar wrote:
> I upgraded PC from from 12.2 to 12.3 last week:
…
> I also now have 2 different kernel versions to boot in the menu, 3.4
> and 3.7
> Not sure how this happened.
It happens with some upgrades. Just use yast package manager, version
tab, to remove the old one.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
FWIW, everything works for me with kernel 3.8.6-2-desktop.
Thank you very much, The power button works.