My laptop doesn't go to sleep, how can I diagnose this?

neidu3 , 5 months ago

yum install melatonin

SnotFlickerman , 5 months ago

apt-get install warm-milk

for debian users

marius , 5 months ago

Now we need a package called alcohol that makes your laptop go to sleep but still drains its battery

SnotFlickerman , 5 months ago

Sleep State S5: alcohol induces intermittent sleep where the monitor keeps coming on and the turning off for indeterminate amounts of time during the night.

TDCN , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Then when the computer wakes up the mouse is all wonky for the first few minutes

masterofn001 , 5 months ago

And the liquid cooling has leaked all over the desk.

Hupf , 5 months ago

So, whatever Windows 11 does on my work laptop when I tell it to standby and it shuts off the screen but proceeds to spin the fans to 100% continuously?

strawberry OP , 5 months ago

oh I love that, especially in the middle of the night

dgriffith , 5 months ago

"Just got to spin through a few trillion instructions to get things sorted before we go to standby! Won't be a minute!"

neidu3 , 5 months ago

cd /usr/ports/hammertothehead && make && make install

...for FreeBSD users