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gnome-power-manager package

  1. Bug #269951
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 269951

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : Re: Fn+F1 (XF86Standby) on Inspiron 1420 does not trigger hibernate or sleep

In the original bug, they were able to restore functionality by adding some HAL rules to disable use of evdev for the device. I experimented around with doing something similar for Dell by disabling evdev for /dev/input/event4 (which xinput shows as 'Sleep Button'. It made no effect; in fact I don't think evdev is grabbing that key to begin with.

I'll experiment with it more; perhaps removing acpi-support would have an effect.