On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 05:59:38PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > Sep 8 17:50:11 mi apmd[1744]: User Suspend > > Sep 8 17:50:13 mi kernel: apm: busy: Unable to enter requested state > > I get the exact message. I am sure it is a BIOS problem here. Did you > enable APM in your BIOS? What does /proc/apm say?
It says, quote: "1.13 1.2 0x07 0x01 0xff 0x80 -1% -1 ?" > > What happens is, the disk shuts down (woo!), the screen fails to blank > > (suck..) > > and about two seconds later the disk, and everything else, starts up > > again. Any ideas? -chris > > Well, the disk starts again, if it has to read or write > something. Maybe your system is swapping and that causes the disk to > start up? I've improved this significantly by mounting all partitions with "sync" and "noatime". The screen blanking problem I can live with because it does eventually blank on its own (I think the xset +dpms defaults to "standby" and "suspend" after 1200 and 1800 seconds, respectively. What I would like now is for the cpu fan to shutdown (presumably after the cpu has entered a sufficiently low-power mode or shut down completely), although I don't even know if this is possible with APM. Sometimes I really wish manpages were written by people with less clue, sigh. -chris
