Lenovo E540 Standby Problem on Ubuntu 14.04

Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:03:58 +0000

UPDATE: Lenovo fixed the Bios, after a bios update standby + USB 3.0 enabled work. I used the geteltorito.pl-method descriped in the thinkwiki: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/BIOS_Upgrade

I was furious about a very annoying standby problem my new Lenovo Laptop had. When closing the lid or choosing standby by the menu I did not hear the disks and fans spin down. Instead it kept running. When I then opened the lid, the backlight or something else shined, but the display stayed all black. The only solution was to keep the powerbutton pressed for a hard shutdown. The only solution for now seems to be to:

Laptop on iniy.org

Lenovo E540 Standby Problem on Ubuntu 14.04