On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 11:43:20PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.29.2104 +0100]: >> also sprach Andrew Agno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.29.1953 +0100]: >>> Possibly a problem with an interaction with any power-saving mode you >>> have? >> >> i was thinking about that too, but on AC power, all the BIOS power >> stuff is disabled (and i am running it on AC power currently). >> >> but for testing purposes, i have disabled apmd for now. > > (no effect) > >> however, the laptop is neither suspended nor unplugged, not even the >> display is closed... i am going to record the idle time until it crashes >> now! > > here are the recorded times of three crashes: > > idle time start: crash: > Fri Mar 29 21:17:49 CET 2002 Fri Mar 29 21:37:49 CET 2002 > Fri Mar 29 21:39:17 CET 2002 Fri Mar 29 21:59:18 CET 2002 > Fri Mar 29 22:19:23 CET 2002 Fri Mar 29 22:39:24 CET 2002 > > i think you get the idea. 20 minutes. but neither my BIOS has a 20 > minute setting for APM/ACPI nor can i find a 5+15 setting or anything > like that. ACPI is disabled anyway. > > to make sure, i disabled all power management in the BIOS, which was > only "Smart CPU mode" for AC and rebooted. waiting for that result > now. ah, there she comes... but a crash after 20 minutes... > > the last thing to test is boot-time disabling of apm, so at the lilo > prompt: linux apm=off > > but another crash after 20 minutes. wtf???
I had the same problem with an ibm tp a30 (radeon chip). I also use the vesa interface for X, and after finding the following in `man XF86Config-4' I just turned DPMS off, and now it works: ,----[ Option "StandbyTime" "time" ] | sets the inactivity timeout for the "standby" phase of DPMS mode. time | is in minutes, and the value can be changed at run-time with xset(1). | Default: 20 minutes. This is only suitable for VESA DPMS compatible | monitors, and may not be supported by all video drivers. It is only | enabled for screens that have the "DPMS" option set (see the MONITOR | section below). `---- I still have problems of X dying if I switch to console and back, I am using the kernel framebuffer (2.4.17pre9) HTH Martin -- PGP/GPG encrypted mail preferred, see header ,-- | Nur tote Fische schwimmen mit dem Strom `-- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
