[plug] Auto hibernate when machine has been idle for 30 minutes

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Sun Mar 6 22:34:36 WST 2005


Bernard Blackham wrote:

> Some combination of "PowerdownMethod 4" in hibernate.conf, and
> "grep -q '^ELAN.*disabled' /proc/acpi/wakeup && echo ELAN > /proc/acpi/wakeup"
> should do the trick (depending on hardware).

Well, my desktop doesn't have a /proc/acpi/wakeup entry but wake on
LAN can be configured using ethtool.  I believe that something like
        "ethtool -s eth0 wol g"
is the correct incantation but haven't actually got as far as trying
it :-)

Cameron.




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