NAME¶
pm-action - Suspend or Hibernate your computer
SYNOPSIS¶
pm-hibernate [--help]
pm-suspend [--quirk-*] [--help]
pm-suspend-hybrid [--quirk-*] [--help]
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the pm-action,
pm-hibernate, pm-suspend and pm-suspend-hybrid
commands. This manual page was originally written for the Debian(TM)
distribution and has been adopted by the pm-utils project.
These commands can be used to put the machine in a sleep state.
The precise way how this is done can be influenced by installing executables
and configuration snippets. For some options external programs are
needed.
These commands will usually be called by UPower or
hald when triggered to do so by a program in a desktop session such
as gnome-power-manager. Calling them from the command line is also
possible, but it is not guaranteed that all programs in your desktop session
keep working as expected.
pm-suspend
During suspend most devices are shutdown, and system
state is saved in RAM. The system still requires power in this state. Most
modern systems require 3 to 5 seconds to enter and leave suspend, and most
laptops can stay in suspend mode for 1 to 3 days before exhausting their
battery.
pm-hibernate
During hibernate the system is fully powered off, and
system state is saved to disk. The system does not require power, and can stay
in hibernate mode indefinitely. Most modern systems require 15 to 45 seconds
to enter and leave hibernate, and entering and leaving hibernate takes longer
when you have more memory.
pm-suspend-hybrid
Hybrid-suspend is the process where the system does
everything it needs to hibernate, but suspends instead of shutting down. This
means that your computer can wake up quicker than for normal hibernation if
you do not run out of power, and you can resume even if you run out of power.
s2both(8) is an hybrid-suspend implementation.
OPTIONS¶
On some hardware putting the video card in the suspend state and
recovering from it needs some special quirk handling. With the --quirk-*
options of the pm-suspend and pm-suspend-hybrid commands you
can select which quirks should be used.
If pm-suspend, pm-hibernate, or
pm-suspend-hybrid are invoked without any commandline parameters,
they will try to grab the correct quirks from the internal quirk
database.
--quirk-dpms-on
This option forces the video hardware to turn on the
screen during resume. Most video adapters turn on the screen themselves, but
if you get a blank screen on resume that can be turned back on by moving the
mouse or typing then this option may be useful.
--quirk-dpms-suspend
This option forces the video hardware to turn off the
screen when suspending. Most video adapters seem to do this correctly, but
some do not, which wastes lots of power. If your screen is still on after
successfully suspending you may need to use this option.
--quirk-none
This option disables quirks.
--quirk-radeon-off
This option forces Radeon hardware to turn off the
display during suspend and turn it back on during resume. You only need to do
this on some old ThinkPads of the ´30 series (T30, X31, R32,... ) with
Radeon video hardware.
--quirk-reset-brigthness
This option resets display brightness during resume (i.e.
sets the brightness to 0 and returns it to the previous value).
--quirk-s3-bios
This option calls the video BIOS during S3 resume.
Unfortunately, it is not always allowed to call the video BIOS at this point,
so sometimes adding this option can actually break resume on some
systems.
--quirk-s3-mode
This option initializes the video card into a VGA text
mode, and then uses the BIOS to set the video mode. On some systems S3 BIOS
only initializes the video BIOS to text mode, and so both S3 BIOS and S3 MODE
are needed.
--quirk-vbe-post
This option will attempt to reinitialize the video card
when resuming from suspend, using the same code the system BIOS uses at boot
in order to initialize the video hardware. Not all video cards need this, and
using this option on systems where it is not needed can cause a system to lock
up when resuming.
--quirk-vbemode-restore
This option will save and restore the current VESA mode
which may be necessary to avoid X screen corruption. Using this feature on
Intel graphics hardware is probably a bad idea.
--quirk-vbestate-restore
This option saves and restores some low level hardware
state which may be invalid after suspend.
--quirk-vga-mode-3
This option will try to force the video card into a
standard text mode on resume.
--quirk-save-pci
Save the PCI config space for the VGA card.
--store-quirks-as-lkw
Save the quirks the video adaptor required by
pm-suspend or pm-suspend-hybrid as an .quirkdb file that is
specific to this system. The file will be saved in
/etc/pm/last_known_working.quirkdb. This parameter will only save the actual
quirks that were used to successfully suspend/resume a system, and will be
specific to the exact configuration of that system, including the video
hardware, video driver, and whether or not kernel modesetting was used.
FILES¶
/etc/pm/config.d
The files in this directory are evaluated in C sort
order. These files can be provided by individual packages outside of pm-utils.
If a global configuration variable is set, the value set to will be appended
to the previous value. If any other variable is set, it will be ignored. The
syntax is simply: VAR_NAME=value. See the CONFIGURATION VARIABLES section for
valid variables defined by pm-utils. External packages can define others, see
their respective documentation for more information.
/etc/pm/sleep.d, /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d
Programs in these directories (called hooks) are combined
and executed in C sort order before suspend and hibernate with as argument
´suspend´ or ´hibernate´. Afterwards they are
called in reverse order with argument ´resume´ and
´thaw´ respectively. If both directories contain a similar named
file, the one in /etc/pm/sleep.d will get preference. It is possible to
disable a hook in the distribution directory by putting a non-executable file
in /etc/pm/sleep.d, or by adding it to the HOOK_BLACKLIST configuration
variable.
/var/log/pm-suspend.log
The log file shows what was done on the last
suspend/hibernate and resume/thaw.
SLEEP HOOK ORDERING CONVENTION¶
00 - 49
User and most package supplied hooks. If a hook assumes
that all of the usual services and userspace infrastructure is still running,
it should be here.
50 - 74
Service handling hooks. Hooks that start or stop a
service belong in this range. At or before 50, hooks can assume that all
services are still enabled.
75 - 89
Module and non-core hardware handling. If a hook needs to
load/unload a module, or if it needs to place non-video hardware that would
otherwise break suspend or hibernate into a safe state, it belongs in this
range. At or before 75, hooks can assume all modules are still loaded.
90 - 99
Reserved for critical suspend hooks.
CONFIGURATION VARIABLES¶
Configuration variables defined by pm-utils. These can be set in
any file in /etc/pm/config.d/.
SLEEP_MODULE [=kernel]
The default suspend backend to use. Valid values are:
kernel
The built-in kernel suspend/resume support. Use this if
nothing else is supported on your system. The kernel backend is always used if
nothing else is available.
uswsusp
If your system has support for the userspace suspend
programs (s2ram/s2disk/s2both), then use this.
tuxonice
If your system has support for tuxonice/suspend2, use
this.
HIBERNATE_RESUME_POST_VIDEO [=no]
If video should be posted after hibernate, just like
after suspend. You should not normally need to set this.
SUSPEND_MODULES
Space separated list of modules to unload before
suspend.
HOOK_BLACKLIST
Space separated list of hooks that should be
disabled.
HIBERNATE_MODE
Default method to power down the system when hibernating.
If not set, the system will use the kernel default as a default value. Check
/sys/power/disk for valid values. The default value will be surrounded by
[square brackets].
NEED_CLOCK_SYNC
If your system clock drifts across a suspend/resume or
hibernate/thaw cycle, you should set this to true. This will cause pm-utils to
synchronize the system clock whenever going through a sleep/wake cycle at the
expense of making suspend/resume take longer.
PM_HIBERNATE_DELAY [=900]
If you are using kernel suspend/resume and invoke
pm-suspend-hybrid, this environment variable controls how many seconds
the system will wait after going into suspend before waking back up and
hibernating. By default, this is set to 900 seconds (15 minutes).
RETURN VALUES¶
Return values less than 128 mean that pm-action failed before
trying to put the system in the requested power saving state. A return value
of 128 means that pm-action tried to put the machine in the requested power
state but failed. A return value greater than 128 means pm-action
encountered an error and also failed to enter the requested power saving
state.
DEBUGGING¶
Debugging suspend/resume can be a tricky process, and is covered
in more detail in /usr/share/doc/pm-utils/README.debugging.
AUTHOR¶
Tim Dijkstra <tim@famdijkstra.org>
Manpage author.
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2007 Tim Dijkstra
This manual page was originally written for the Debian(TM) system,
and has been adopted by the pm-utils project.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at
your option) any later version published by the Free Software
Foundation.