ubuntu goes to standby while I'm using VOIP (Ekiga)

[Duncan Lithgow]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

Ubuntu 8.04 updated 18. March
duncan@ubuntu:~$ apt-cache policy gnome-power-manager
gnome-power-manager:
  Installed: 2.22.0-0ubuntu1

With 'System > Preferences > Power Management' set to put the computer to sleep after 11 minutes of inactivity my laptop goes to sleep while I'm talking over VOIP with Ekiga. Surely the system knows there is a live connection and can wait?

I have reported this in bugzilla but can't find the bug just now... (stupid system)

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

I should mention that the reason this is a problem is that the connection gets dropped and has to be reestablished manually on wake-up

[Ted Gould (ted)]

Reassigning to Ekiga, it's Ekiga's responsibility to tell GPM not to suspend. As a workaround you can use the "Inhibit Applet" to disable suspend while on a call.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

is this still an issue with intrepid?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.