On Friday 07 May 2010 19:26:46 András Csányi wrote:
> On 7 May 2010 19:33, Roman Naumann <roman_naumann@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > when I suspend my computer, KDE locks the session. This usually happens,
> > when I close my laptop lid.
> >
> > When I open it again, it takes 1 to 20 seconds (seamingly random) untill
> > the login screen appears. During this time, I just see a black screen and
> > a mouse pointer (somewhere), but I cannot move it.
> >
> > If no X server is started, i.e. I'm on the shell, the computer always
> > responds after a second or so when the laptop lid is opened again.
> >
> > Any ideas what causes this or how to fix it?
> 
> Suspend is that when the computer isn't off just the things stays in
> memory, isn't? When the contents of the memory is writed to the disk
> and the machine is get off that is the hibernate function, isn't?
> 
> It is possible that when you close the lid the contents of memory
> writed to the disk and reading this few hundred Mbyte - on my laptop
> KDE is eating ~800 Mbyte memory, the hungry Beast! :) -  takes that
> long time what you mentioned?
> I'm not a big hacker just I'm thinking over it. :$

I haven't got the answer I'm afraid, but it happens the same here with a 
desktop machine - no lid.  It takes up to 45 seconds for the screen to wake 
up!  The PC starts up immediately, but the screen stays blank.

In MSWindows, the screen becomes alive within seconds.
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Regards,
Mick