On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 14:29 -0500, Matt Roth wrote: > How do I configure the power saving/APM options in FC3? I've taken a > look on the internet and the suggestions range from BIOS settings to > kernel parameters to kernel builds with specific flags to setterm > commands to X configurations. > > Specifically, I am looking to completely disable all power saving > features such as screen blanking and disk spin-down. The machines will > generally be in text mode, but X is used on them occasionally with KDE. None of my Fedora machines spin the discs down. That's the sort of thing I see from BIOS settings. If you have an OS on your computer, and you do, then go into the BIOS and turn off any power management, there, that will turn things off after a while. I've yet to see any OS that can wake up a device that the BIOS has put to sleep. Let your OS turn things off, if you want to. When logged in graphically, you have screensaver preferences about powering the monitor. You can adjust them. For text modes, look at "xset" (if it's still the same command as Red Hat 9.0 Linux used for that sort of thing). However, I don't know what you can do to stop screen blanking of login screens (graphical or text), they always blank off for me. I'd rather that there was at least something showing that the PC was still alive. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
