Comments on: Install Gutsy

By: Len » The ubuntu weekend?

Len » The ubuntu weekend? — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:43:00 +0000

[...] Edgy, Feisty, Gusty, Hardy, Intrepid. Like a child waiting for a new toy I’ve counted the days until they where [...]

By: Len » K550i sync

Len » K550i sync — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:07:50 +0000

[...] After the tragic death of my T630 phone I have bought a new Sony Ericsson K550i to replace it. The old phone worked quite ok with linux but I was very pleased by how quick I was able to make this new one work with my Ubuntu Gutsy. [...]

By: Len

Len — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:56:20 +0000

Sorry Don, I have no idea how to add an icon to KDE, I am more command-line oriented and haven’t used KDE in a while.

By: Don Rozenberg

Don Rozenberg — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:54:29 +0000

I would like just a bit more info on installing power manager. I am running Kubuntu Gutsy with kpowersave and find that resume often leaves my usb keyboard dead until I use my usb mouse to restart the x-server. I saw the kpowersave post and installed gnome-power-manager. I was able to suspend and resume, but I have no icon. Is there a way for me to get an icon in the KDE panel.

I apologize if this is not an appropriate place to ask this question.

Thanks, in Advance,
Don

By: Thankful

Thankful — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:17:16 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks.

Suspend quit working for me, after upgrading to Gutsy. All I did was change SAVE_VBE_STATE=true to match what you have (i.e. false) and it’s now working again.

By: rodiq

rodiq — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:24:21 +0000

Thanks, I needed the suspend workaround and it worked imediately. Great to have the solution I needed.

By: mikeos

mikeos — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:56:47 +0000

I still couldn't suspend my D820 running Gutsy. I disabled kpowersave and enabled Power Manager which comes by default with Hardy and it resolved my problem.

The only modification I had to do was to /etc/default/acpi-support:

SAVE_VBE_STATE=false
POST_VIDEO=false
DOUBLE_CONSOLE_SWITCH=true

Both suspend/resume + hibernate/unhibernate work smoothly now. Screen gets locked after resume and I get back to the proper tty (no need to CTRL+ALT+Fsomething). After unhibernation I just need to manually switch to online mode from KNetworkManager tray icon.

btw.: Hardy is more stable for me than Gutsy, you just need to be careful what you're doing everytime you upgrade.

My system: Dell Latitude D820, nVidia Quadro