Hi, I have a weird problem with my machine; i've just installed SuSE 9.2 on a P4, no unusual hardware etc. If I leave the PC alone for some time the system completely locks up. I.e. I return to the machine, and the screen is in powersave mode, the PC is still on, but not amount of keyboard bashing or mouse waggling can wake it. I also tried to ssh in, but the machine never responds. Now obviously this is some powersave issue, but I have checked the configuration (set to "performance", i.e. no power saving) and the screen saver is set to ignore powersave stuff. As per usual I'm sure that adding pci=noacpi to the boot line, will fix it, but I'm sick of using this as my linux cure-all :) Hope you can help? Cheers, Jon. -- Jonathan Brooks (Ph.D.) Research Assistant PaIN Group, Department of Human Anatomy & Genetics University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QX tel: 01865 272156 fax: 01865 282675
In a previous message, Jonathan Brooks
Now obviously this is some powersave issue
Try disabling powersaved using the YaST runlevel editor. John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Valley of the Kings: ransack an ancient Egyptian tomb but beware of mummies!
On Friday 17 December 2004 09:06 am, John Pettigrew wrote:
In a previous message, Jonathan Brooks
wrote: Now obviously this is some powersave issue
Try disabling powersaved using the YaST runlevel editor.
This is part of the Readme in /usr/share/docs/packages/powersave which may be of some help: This packages is mainly for laptops. Its main purpose is to save power when working on battery. However some additional features (proper suspend/standby, configure ACPI Buttons, ...) may also be interesting for workstations or even server (e.g. spindown IDE-disks). This package unifies the control of power managing facilities on your PC. It supports hardware based on ACPI, APM, IDE-disks and CPU frequency scaling techniques. It takes over functionalities of the APMD, ACPID, OSPMD and CPUFREQD (now called CPUSPEED) packages. Therefore you should not install at least you must not run daemons from these packages when you run the powersave daemon! If your PC does not contain all of the described hardware above (APM and ACPI are mutal exclusive) you should still run this daemon to manage power saving related tasks. The overhead is small and you will be provided with a unique interface and configuration environment. And you can still use this tool if some hardware should change (e.g. booting ACPI instead of APM when kernel provides better ACPI support). The daemon will automatically detect your hardware. RA
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