Wake up with keyboard from hibernation mode

**mabox** · January 9th, 2013

Hello,
I would like to turn on my computer from the hipernation mode using the keyboard. In Windows that is on the same computer installed, it works simply press any key and the computer will boot. On my Ubuntu the keyboard then only wild starts to flicker, but the computer will not boot. I am using a logitech G15 keyboard.
Have anyone an idea?

Greetings
mabox

**tgalati4** · January 9th, 2013

Perhaps there is a BIOS setting either "Legacy USB Devices" or "Allow USB to Wake"?

**mabox** · January 9th, 2013

But with Windows on the same machine it is working.
Therefore i think the BIOS settings should be correct

**tgalati4** · January 9th, 2013

Did you check the BIOS settings? Linux interacts with the hardware in a very different fashion than Windows.

**mabox** · January 9th, 2013

Now I did check the BIOS settings. There is a setting "Legacy USB Device" activated.
Otherwise I can not find any settings for "wake up" and "USB".....

Any other idea?

**tgalati4** · January 9th, 2013

What is the model of the computer? Does suspend-to-RAM work? In otherwords, can you put the machine to sleep (but not hiberation--that writes to disk) and then wake it by hitting the power-on button?

Open a terminal and install acpitool:

Code:

sudo apt-get install acpitool
acpitool -e

Post the output of that into this thread.

**mabox** · January 9th, 2013

Hi,
here is the output:

Code:

acpitool -e
  Kernel version : 3.5.0-21-generi   -    ACPI version : 20120320
  -----------------------------------------------------------
  Battery status : <not available>

  AC adapter     : <info not available or off-line> 
  Fan            : <not available>

  CPU type               : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         920  @ 2.67GHz 
  Min/Max frequency      : 1600/2668 MHz
  Current frequency      : 2668 MHz
  Frequency governor     : performance 
  Freq. scaling driver   : acpi-cpufreq 
  Cache size             : 2668.000 KB
  Bogomips               : 5345.77 
  Bogomips               : 5345.77 
  Bogomips               : 5345.77 
  Bogomips               : 5345.77 
  Bogomips               : 5345.77 
  Bogomips               : 5345.77 
  Bogomips               : 5345.77 
  Bogomips               : 5345.77 
  Function Show_CPU_Info : could not read directory /proc/acpi/processor/
  Make sure your kernel has ACPI processor support enabled.

  Thermal info   : <not available>

   Device	S-state	  Status   Sysfs node
  ---------------------------------------
  1. NPE2	  S4	*disabled  
  2. NPE4	  S4	*disabled  
  3. NPE5	  S4	*disabled  
  4. NPE6	  S4	*disabled  
  5. NPE8	  S4	*disabled  
  6. NPE9	  S4	*disabled  
  7. NPEA	  S4	*disabled  
  8. P0P1	  S4	*disabled  pci:0000:00:1e.0
  9. USB0	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:1d.0
  10. USB1	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:1d.1
  11. USB2	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:1d.2
  12. USB5	  S4	*disabled  
  13. EUSB	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:1d.7
  14. USB3	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:1a.0
  15. USB4	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:1a.1
  16. USB6	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:1a.2
  17. USBE	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:1a.7
  18. P0P4	  S4	*disabled  pci:0000:00:1c.0
  19. P0P5	  S4	*disabled  
  20. P0P6	  S4	*disabled  pci:0000:00:1c.2
  21. P0P7	  S4	*disabled  
  22. P0P8	  S4	*disabled  
  23. P0P9	  S4	*disabled  pci:0000:00:1c.5
  24. NPE1	  S4	*disabled  pci:0000:00:01.0
  25. NPE3	  S4	*disabled  pci:0000:00:03.0
  26. NPE7	  S4	*disabled  pci:0000:00:07.0
  27. GBE	  S4	*disabled

Suspend and hibernation works, e.g. with the terminal:

Code:

sudo pm-suspend

or

Code:

sudo pm-hibernate

With both it is possible to wake up the machine over the power-on button.

**tgalati4** · January 10th, 2013

USB5 is disabled, which means it loses power when your computer goes to sleep. Is it possible that your keyboard is connected to USB5?

acpitool -w

man acpitool

enable USB5 using acpitool and see if keyboard will wake the computer.

sudo acpitool -w 5 (or use whatever number shows up as USB5 when running with -w switch.)

Then verify with:

acpitool -w

**mabox** · January 10th, 2013

Hi,
I try to change the status from USB5, but it doesn't work.

Code:

sudo su -
acpitool -W 12

Result:

Code:

acpitool -W 12
  Changed status for wakeup device #12 (USB5)

Code:

acpitool -w
   Device	S-state	  Status   Sysfs node
  ---------------------------------------
  1. NPE2	  S4	*disabled  
  2. NPE4	  S4	*disabled  
  3. NPE5	  S4	*disabled  
  4. NPE6	  S4	*disabled  
  5. NPE8	  S4	*disabled  
  6. NPE9	  S4	*disabled  
  7. NPEA	  S4	*disabled  
  8. P0P1	  S4	*disabled  pci:0000:00:1e.0
  9. USB0	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:1d.0
  10. USB1	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:1d.1
  11. USB2	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:1d.2
  12. USB5	  S4	*disabled  
  13. EUSB	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:1d.7
  14. USB3	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:1a.0
  15. USB4	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:1a.1
  16. USB6	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:1a.2
  17. USBE	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:1a.7
  18. P0P4	  S4	*disabled  pci:0000:00:1c.0
  19. P0P5	  S4	*disabled  
  20. P0P6	  S4	*disabled  pci:0000:00:1c.2
  21. P0P7	  S4	*disabled  
  22. P0P8	  S4	*disabled  
  23. P0P9	  S4	*disabled  pci:0000:00:1c.5
  24. NPE1	  S4	*disabled  pci:0000:00:01.0
  25. NPE3	  S4	*disabled  pci:0000:00:03.0
  26. NPE7	  S4	*disabled  pci:0000:00:07.0
  27. GBE	  S4	*disabled

No changes in the status.

**tgalati4** · January 11th, 2013

I noticed that USB5 is still off. So perhaps it is a special USB connection or it is under control of BIOS. Does your keyboard have a sleep button (half-moon symbol). If so, will it wake the machine if you press it? If that works then you can remap the sleep key to any key that you want. On one machine with a keyboard that did not have a sleep key, I remapped it to the "p" key. So to wake the machine, I would hit "p" and it would wake up.

As a work-around, use the power button.

Send an email to the manufacturer of the computer detailing your problem.