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Suspend on Thinkpad and Arch Linux

by john on June 8th, 2010

Figure I should make some notes on what I've done to get Arch running on my Thinkpad. I've made so many changes without any notes. Oops.

This is what I did to get my laptop to suspend when closing the lid. Found the instructions at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_Thinkpad_X300#Suspend_.2F_Hibernate

# pacman -S uswsusp

Test suspending:
# /usr/sbin/s2ram -f

Then install acpid

# pacman -S acpid

Add it to /etc/rc.conf DAEMONS section before hal.

# nano /etc/acpi/handler.sh

Note: In above link it says to edit default.sh. That file doesn't exist. It's now handler.sh

Change the 'button/lid' section like this:

button/lid)
#echo "LID switched!">/dev/tty5
;;

to

button/lid)
/usr/sbin/s2ram -f
echo "LID switched!">/dev/tty5
;;

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