> >> I've set up my system so that when I close the laptop lid the computer goes into suspend mode. However, when I wake it up by pressing the power button the system > >> starts, and after 3-5 sec it goes into suspend mode again. If I then press the power button again, it starts and stays on. Suggestions? > >> > >> > > Explain what DE you are running and how and what did you "set up". > > > > > > > Sounds like he's running KDE. The problem that he described is with > powerdevil and has already been fixed upstream (but I don't think the > current release contains it yet). > > -- Sven-Hendrik I'm using OpenBox on i686. /etc/acpi/handler.sh is set to react on laptop lid close like so: button/lid) #echo "LID switched!">/dev/tty5 /usr/sbin/pm-suspend ;; *) logger "ACPI group/action undefined: $1 / $2" ;; esac # End of /etc/acpi/handler.sh I'm also having an issue where the fan sometimes goes all guns blazing and runs at 100% (for no reason at all) after awakening from suspend.