Hello, I’ve noticed that whenever I try to put my ThinkPad T16 Gen 3 to sleep, the fans are still spinning. However, my Windows PC instantly turns off the fans when put to sleep. Is there a setting I can change to put it that way? No, i haven’t tried putting the T16 Gen 3 to sleep on Windows.
Different Lenovo model, but this advice might be worth trying first:
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-X-Series-Laptops/Fan-stays-on-when-it-s-in-sleep-mode/m-p/4126417?page=1#4128122
If this (S3 sleep) is not possible, you might need to raise it with Lenovo directly.
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How do I change it so that it uses S3 sleep in Tumbleweed? Do I edit GRUB for this or what?
The first comment in the linked article says that you change this in BIOS.
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I don’t own a Thinkpad, but this does not look like normal BIOS settings.
No, that’s what the BIOS settings screen looks like on newer thinkpads.
I don’t know where that setting is, in the BIOS, but it’s most likely in there somewhere.
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Maybe it’s removed?
Your sceenshot didn’t show the available sleep state modes. Is it out of view further down in the config page? Here’s what I might have epxected…image uplifted from google search…
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/11jer7z/modern_standby_fixed_after_changing_sleep_state/
It does seem that this laptop model only supports S0ix…
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Other-Linux-Discussions/Thinkpad-T16-can-t-resume-from-suspend/m-p/5160642?page=15#5965514
I’d suggest taking the fan issue up with Lenovo as mentioned previously.
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There wasn’t that option in the BIOS.
No, as one of the links I shared suggested, it likely only supports ‘Modern Standby’.
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Damn…ok.
I found out there’s a BIOS simulator that you can try. Lenovo BIOS Simulator Center
Maybe consider just using hibernate - it is generally reasonably quick to come out of hibernation, and helps with power consumption anyway.
I’ve had a very weird experience with hibernate though (on Windows at least). I think sometimes, the machine will just refuse to hibernate or stuff will break. However, I’ll give it a try.
How do I add it to the Super (or Start) menu?
Which desktop environment are you using?
KDE, on Tumbleweed.