Suspend not working correctly

[sundoulos]

Dell Precision 4800, Kubuntu 14.10 64-bit fresh install

Suspend works from Fn-F1, lid switch, menu choices, everywhere you would expect it to except automatically after the time specified in the Battery Monitor Settings. The screen dims and turns off at the specified times but it doesn't suspend. There are no entries in the pm-suspend log indicating any kind of failure.

Any ideas how to make it suspend automatically?

[SecretCode]

Are you referring to the mains power, battery or low battery timeouts? If they're set correctly in Power Management > Energy Saving, it may be worth making sure that ~/.kde/share/config/powermanagementprofilesrc reflects the right options.

If suspend works properly via other channels, I'm betting that it's a power settings issue and suspend is not even being invoked.

[sundoulos]

You are correct. According to the log it isn't being invoked. L looked at powermanagementprofilesrc and the numbers look a little strange.

[AC][DPMSControl]
idleTime=600

[AC][DimDisplay]
idleTime=300000

[AC][HandleButtonEvents]
lidAction=1
powerButtonAction=16

[AC][SuspendSession]
idleTime=900000
suspendType=1

In the Battery Monitor Settings GUI, DimDisplay is set at 5 min, ScreenEnergySaving at 10 min, and SuspendSession at 15min. idleTime numbers don't really look right given the settings.

[Snowhog]

These are my settings:
grep AC -A1 /home/paul/.kde/share/config/powermanagementprofilesrc

[AC]
icon=battery-charging

[AC][BrightnessControl]
value=17

[AC][DPMSControl]
idleTime=300

[AC][DimDisplay]
idleTime=300000

[AC][HandleButtonEvents]
lidAction=1
powerButtonAction=16

[Activities][8b595a41-1280-4203-a130-ef8fa8548743]
mode=None

[Battery]
icon=battery-060

[Battery][BrightnessControl]
value=0

[Battery][DPMSControl]
idleTime=300

[Battery][DimDisplay]
idleTime=120000

[Battery][HandleButtonEvents]
lidAction=1
powerButtonAction=16

[Battery][SuspendSession]
idleTime=600000
suspendType=1

[LowBattery]
icon=battery-low

[LowBattery][BrightnessControl]
value=0

[LowBattery][DPMSControl]
idleTime=120

[LowBattery][DimDisplay]
idleTime=60000

[LowBattery][HandleButtonEvents]
lidAction=8
powerButtonAction=8

[LowBattery][SuspendSession]
idleTime=300000
suspendType=8

I don't have Suspend activated when on AC Power.

idleTime is expressed in milliseconds. 600000 milliseconds equals 10 minutes. 900000 milliseconds equals 15 minutes.

[sundoulos]

I figured it was milliseconds. However, the DPMSControl setting figures out to 60:1 for some reason. Anyway... mine doesn't suspend under any conditions unless I tell it to - AC, Battery, Low Battery. Must be something else going on I guess.

[sundoulos]

Figured it out...finally. It's a kernel issue, apparently. I was running the stock kernel 3.16.0-30. The only thing I did was upgrade to 3.18.0-13, problem solved.