suspend-to-ram woes on a thinkpad x41

[Michael Shulman]

Belay that, again.  Sometimes it doesn't work; but sometimes the key
shortcut does.  It seems to me now that the determining factor is
whether the laptop was connected to the X4 Ultrabase or not when it
*booted* (not at the time of suspend).  A hibernation in between
doesn't seem to make a difference either.  So I guess I have a
pragmatic solution: just don't boot when connected to the ultrabase! 
However, I've also noticed that it refuses to notice the CD drive in
the ultrabase *unless* it was connected at boot time.  Perhaps the two
are related?  Anyone have similar experiences with an ultrabase, or
any ideas why this could be?

On 1/29/06, Michael Shulman <shulman at math.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> On 1/29/06, Michael Shulman <shulman at math.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> > > Also if you're running gnome see if using gnome-power-manager works
> > > instead of the keyboard shortcut. My Keyboard shortcut doesn't work but
> > > the power manager does.
> >
> > gnome-power-manager doesn't seem to do anything at all.
>
> Hmm, okay, well what I meant was, the gnome-power-manager applet
> doesn't seem to do anything when I tell it to suspend.  But the
> "Suspend" option on the Gnome "Log Out" button does work!!  Thanks a
> million.  That makes me very happy, but is there any way to set up the
> keyboard shortcut to instead invoke whatever gnome is doing that
> works?
>
> Mike
>