Dell Inspiron 3800, Suse 9.1 and Standby and Suspend

Found a decent post at the Suse Laptop mailinglist which describes how to get the Suspend and Standby features working.

On my Dell Inspiron 3800, it was as simple as changing the following two lines in /etc.powersave.conf from:

POWERSAVED_DISABLE_USER_SUSPEND=YES
POWERSAVED_DISABLE_USER_STANDBY=YES

to read:

POWERSAVED_DISABLE_USER_SUSPEND=no
POWERSAVED_DISABLE_USER_STANDBY=no

Then you can test it by running:

/usr/bin/powersave --suspend
and:
/usr/bin/powersave --standby

Remember: Standby is to memory, suspend is to disk.

Now you can configure the auto suspend on low battery.