[Dextrose] How to prevent suspending XO-1?

[Anish Mangal]

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On Wed 02 May 2012 10:53:28 PM IST, Ajay Garg wrote:
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> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Anish Mangal
> <anish at activitycentral.com <mailto:anish at activitycentral.com>> wrote:
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>     On Wed 02 May 2012 10:32:19 PM IST, Ajay Garg wrote:
>     > Ok, Thanks.
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>     > a) How to confirm this, that automatic suspension is disabled?
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>     IIRC. *ONLY* on the XO-1
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> Ya, that's ok.
> I meant, codewise.
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>     > b) It would be better if the suspension is disabled even during
>     > lid closing, as that could be a frequent case to preserve physical
>     > space.
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>     Why would disabling suspend save physical space? Sorry, I don't
>     understand.
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> I meant, that closing the lid would preserver space.
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>     > c) The power-button case can be lived with.
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>     Is this related to mesh icons reappearing after suspend, or there is a
>     different reason?
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>     Note, We _want_ to be able to suspend using lid-closing or power
>     button. This significantly increases the battery life of the laptops,
>     and they dont require frequent recharging.
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>     The only reason why active power management (i.e. screen dimming,
>     screen blanking out, wifi shutdown, suspend) is disabled on the XO-1
>     is because it doesn't work reliably enough. I think the normal
>     suspend-resume cycle works well though (save for the mesh issue)
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> Well, that is the problem at first place - after suspend, no icons
> (wireless/mesh-if-at-all) occur (ad-hoc do).
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>     > May be Jerry can comment?
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>     > Regards, Ajay
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>     > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Anish Mangal
>     > <anish at activitycentral.com <mailto:anish at activitycentral.com>
>     <mailto:anish at activitycentral.com <mailto:anish at activitycentral.com>>>
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>     > On Wed 02 May 2012 10:23:39 PM IST, Ajay Garg wrote:
>     >> Hi all.
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>     >> How can we prevent XO-1 from suspending?
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>     >> Esteban Arias from Ceibal says "enable_idle_suspend=0" in some
>     >> ini file (haven't asked the details). Would that work for these
>     >> cases ::
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>     >> a) Preventing XO-1 suspension, when idle for a long time?
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>     >> b) Preventing XO-1 suspension, when the power-button is pressed
>     >> once?
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>     > AFAIK, active power management on the XO-1 is disabled. This means
>     > that the XO won't go into suspend if left idle.
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>     > However, pressing the power button or closing the lid will take
>     > the laptop in suspend, which is the intended behavior.
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If we can't find a way to disable mesh after suspend without crashing
NetworkManager, the _workaround_ would be to live with the mesh icons
in neighbourhood view, not disable suspend!

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>     >> Regards, Ajay
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>     Anish Mangal
>     Dextrose Project Manager
>     Activity Central
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Anish Mangal
Dextrose Project Manager
Activity Central
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