Thanks. It seems like it will be a while before kde5 is ready.

hmm... with the release cycle of slackware, that means it won't be until sometime around 2017?

Just wondering if there were any plans for a Salix using plasma 5 in the near future? Or if there is an easy way to upgrade to it?

Thanks

Well I cleaned out the computer very well, and even reinstalled my bios and set it the default settings.

However it has not helped anything. I am starting to think something has failed (motherboard, power supply, or something else). I really liked having the sleep mode work, but it looks like I ...

I found some possible information on this:

Yep, this is not a software issue. It's rather a hardware issue. I'm experiencing the same problem on two of my PCs after been running them well for over 3 years.

There can be a number of possible causes suitable for different MB/CPU or may be a ...

My guess is that in your other previous distributions, which were probably older versions of the ones you have now, you were running an older version of the kernel and somehow in newer versions of the kernel, that newer versions of the distributions you're trying now have, there has been a ...

I am pretty certain the problem I am seeing is related to my bios, or hardware failure. I have checked all of my live cd's that used to work fine, and they all shut down now. However this is also very strange. I just tried windows, and it shut down too. I can't remember if windows worked before I ...

Thanks. That now has my moon key working to hibernate, which seems to work good now.

The only problem now is I would like to be able to suspend to ram. And when I change it to suspend, it just shuts down.

Are there any bios settings that would do this? It sure is strange that this just started ...

Thanks, I was able to set it up by adding this to /etc/sudoers

username ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/pm-hibernate
username ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/pm-suspend

Then setting up a keyboard shortcut to sudo /usr/sbin/pm-hibernate should work, and it does for shortcuts other than using the moon key ...

Yes, I get a power off when I try suspending to RAM.

However running echo disk > /sys/power/state was interesting. It shut it down, but the boot up process was not the same. It went through lilo, then just came right into my desktop like it had not been shutoff.