On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 00:50, Scott Burns wrote: > Hi, > Two things come to mind: the screen saver and power management. > > Does the screen saver kick in when you walk away? Set it to 1 > minute and see if you can exit it and still have sound afterwards. > > Does the computer hibernate when you walk away? I had a compaq a > few months back that would go to sleep after 20 minutes. It drove me > nuts - I'd ssh in and suddenly, bang, all dead. Walk up to the machine, > move the mouse, all better and ssh would start working again. Took me a > few hours to figure that one out. If your's is doing the same you may > need to remove and then reload modules on wake up. You will need to ask > someone else, but figuring it out is a good first step. hi, thx for responding. i don't set my computer to hibernate or anything. i have walked away from the computer and left xmms streaming for hours, come back with the screen saver on, and no issues. the problem seems to be if i just don't use sound, walk away, come back (screen saver on, yes), and then no sound. no hibernate or power save features that i know of. i dunno if acpi has anything to do with this...? cheers -ryan
