New user questions.

[damooster]

I'm sorry if these questions have been answered, but I'm once again at work and trying to sneak this post in before the boss comes down to check on us. :)

I bought a book called "A Practical Guide to Ubuntu," which you can find on the Barnes and Noble site, and it came with a live/install dvd of Ubuntu 7.10.

I partitioned my hard drive and was going to boot camp it, but I was distracted from my bird pecking at my ear and unwittingly chose the option to repartition the hard drive and install it to the entire disk. Everything installed fine and I actually like it so far, but I noticed one problem (so far).

If I choose to put my computer on sleep/hibernate, it goes down like its sleeping but then freezes. If I hit a key or press the mouse, it doesn't boot back up, and I end up having to hold down the power key and then press it again to power it up.

Any idea how to fix this?

[banewman]

How old is the mac?
Is it intel based?

[damooster]

I've had this iMac for about a year. It is Intel based; it is the 17" Intel Core 2 Duo with a 2.0 processor, 2GB of RAM.

Sorry, I should have included this information earlier.

[banewman]

From google it seems suspend and resume isn't supported yet for your mac - sorry to say
I may be wrong but that is all I've found.
:)

[damooster]

Thanks banewman. At least I now know that it's not fixable and I won't have to worry about trying to fix it!

[cyberdork33]

Try changing this in /etc/default/acpi-support:

SAVE_VBE_STATE=false
POST_VIDEO=false

[damooster]

Thanks for the code, I will try that when I get home.