Power functions just doesn't work

[9a3eedi]

Hello,

I just got this Asus G1S laptop. Quite a nice laptop, and it has a Santa Rosa chipset (which may or may not be related to this problem). Had to switch to some linux distro because Vista is plain balls

anyway,

After installing sabayon, i've been having quite a lot of problems. I've solved quite a lot of them myself, but this one I just do not know what to do at all... The thing is, I cannot use the essential Power-related functions at all. This includes Shutting down, restarting, hibernating, and suspending to RAM.

• When I shut down, KDE logs out, the screen turns blank, and stays like that. Also I've realized that the fan goes up to the max, which may indicate that the CPU is on full load? I left it for 5 minutes and it still didn't shut down on its own. Everytime I shut down, I have to cold switch it off (manually press the power button) and I think the disk doesn't get unmounted so that's no good.
• Same observations for restarting
• When suspending to RAM, the screen goes blank, never actually going to standby (LED doesn't start blinking, fan is on). And I could never get it back on. Have to cold switch it off too
• Suspending to disk doesn't do anything. It's simply locks the session, and stays that way. no observations of disk usage. I can unlock the KDE session and use it as if nothing happened

Also worth noting, though it may be unrelated, is that I can't seem to switch between the X sessions and other TTY's and back again. Doing that crashes the system, and so cold shut off needed. If I switch to a TTY I get a blank screen, which is wierd because I can see the boot splash and the verbose messages when I boot sabayon. switching it back to the X session show some garbled graphics on screen.. and system crash

Any ideas? I haven't got any XD. Perhaps I need to update a package?

[WarraWarra]

Kpower and kde control panel you have to enable the acpi and after reboot it should be active so that kde can manage the power.

Will this fix it not sure.

See the post I made about 3.4f + nvidia + compiz as lxnay posted a fix at the bottom for glx / compiz that could fix some or most of this for you that is not power saving related like the shutdown black screen.

Might have to emerge lm_sensors as well as hddtemp or something along this lines so that all the sensors can work and then for shutdown try the kpower next to time and advanced as something might be incorrectly listed in that options.

Best bet is to see if someone has the same laptop / model as you have in gentoo forums / wiki or just for linux and there could be a fix for this shutdown reboot bug or a program that needs to be installed to fix this.

Hope this helps. Will see what I can find and post once I found something usefull.

[9a3eedi]

Kpower and kde control panel you have to enable the acpi and after reboot it should be active so that kde can manage the power.

Will this fix it not sure.

See the post I made about 3.4f + nvidia + compiz as lxnay posted a fix at the bottom for glx / compiz that could fix some or most of this for you that is not power saving related like the shutdown black screen.

Best bet is to see if someone has the same laptop / model as you have in gentoo forums / wiki or just for linux and there could be a fix for this shutdown reboot bug or a program that needs to be installed to fix this.

Hope this helps. Will see what I can find and post once I found something usefull.

How can I enable the acpi? From what I understood is that you go to kcontrol, then you find an option there to enable acpi support? Actually, I wonder why it's disabled in the first place :p . Anyway, I tried, didn't find anything. I probably misunderstood you.. can you please clarfiy?

Also, you didn't post a link to the post...

And the thing is, the laptop is quite new and has the santa rosa platform which just got released in May 2007 afaik, so I can't find any suitable threads in the gentoo forums.