---------- Original Message ----------- From: Scott Garrison <sgarrison@xxxxxxx> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 21:26:10 -0500 Subject: funny powersave kind of thing with Fedora > I'm running FC 1 on an old IBM Aptiva (AMD K6). Runs great, > including VNC now, etc. > > I must've done something to cause the following problem, but can't > seem to resolve it myself (have turned off apmd, doesn't fix it): > > After 30 minutes of inactivity, my system goes into some kind of > powersave mode. The monitor goes into standby, and the CPU does a > funny 'half shutdown' where the powerlight blinks on and off, the > fans are still running, but the system is unresponsive at the > console or remotely (e.g. via ssh). > > When I press the power switch, it comes back to life--monitor comes > back on, etc.. I'm taking this system to be hosted at Ohio State > this weekend, so naturally, I need it not to go into this weird mode > on me every 30 minutes (me sitting at my VNC and ssh client in > Michigan). > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have! > > --SG > > ********************************************* > Scott Garrison, M.L.S. > Adjunct Faculty > School of Information and Library Science > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > e: sgarrison@xxxxxxx > v: 989.400.3463 ------- End of Original Message ------- Sounds like a BIOS setting is over riding the Linux settings. You may need to disable this function in the BIOS. Wolf
