I have installed opensuse on my gateway m6862 laptop. Sleep mode with ubuntu worked fine, but in suse it does not actually shut off my laptop when i put it in sleep… all it does is turn the screen black with the password screen but NOTHING shuts off rendering sleep mode useless. is there any way to fix this?
What do you intend exactly with sleep? As far as I know, OpenSuSE supports “Suspend to Disk” and “Suspend to RAM”. I think “Suspend to RAM” is trickier and doesn’t work on my laptop (a HP Compaq 6715b) either; “Suspend to Disk” works perfectly. The symptoms you’re describing are actually SuSE trying to go into suspend mode and failing miserably, leaving you with a locked screen. I doubt you can make it work (maybe by editing your Autosuspend blacklist in Kpowersave, but that’s a looong shot). Obviously Ubuntu is better at handling this; a SuSE update may eventually fix this in the near future…
Try these things: Suspend to RAM - openSUSE and/or Suspend to disk - openSUSE
Update. I actually made Suspend to RAM work on a HP Compaq 6715b laptop by adding a text file named “config”, containing just one line, into the /etc/pm/config.d folder. The line is:
S2RAM_OPTS="-f -a 1"
As for Suspend to Disk, it worked out of the box on this laptop.