Re: Need help debugging total system lockup, probably notebook power saving related

2018-02-22 Thread Ondřej Grover
Hi, so far the i915.enable_rc6=0 option seems to have worked. No system hangs with it so far. Haven't got a feel if battery run-time is worse, but the difference probably isn't that bad. Ondrej G. On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 8:09 PM, Ondřej Grover wrote: > Hi Henning, > thanks for the tip. > > How

Re: Need help debugging total system lockup, probably notebook power saving related

2018-02-21 Thread Ondřej Grover
Hi Henning, thanks for the tip. However, I've been experiencing this issue already before the spectre/meltdown bunch hit the fan. It does sound like it a bit, but likely is some different HW stuff. For now I'm experimenting with i915.enable_rc6=0. I hope it won't bog down the battery run-time too

Re: Need help debugging total system lockup, probably notebook power saving related

2018-02-21 Thread Henning Follmann
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 09:51:58AM +0100, Ondřej Grover wrote: > Hello, > > I need help debugging random total system lock-ups. > This is a notebook Acer Aspire V3-572G-78A running Debian Stretch with > the 4.9.0-5-amd64 kernel. > > When running on battery (does not happen on AC power), usually a

Need help debugging total system lockup, probably notebook power saving related

2018-02-21 Thread Ondřej Grover
Hello, I need help debugging random total system lock-ups. This is a notebook Acer Aspire V3-572G-78A running Debian Stretch with the 4.9.0-5-amd64 kernel. When running on battery (does not happen on AC power), usually after resuming from RAM, after some rather random time (can be a few minutes t

Re: Monitor won't come back from power-saving sleep

2017-09-19 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2017-08-17 13:14:08 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: > I just installed Debian on a (legacy) Optiplex 9010 desktop, and I'm > working through some kinks. > > The most serious one, by far, is that the monitor won't wake up after it > goes goes dark to save power. I sometimes have this problem with a De

Re: Monitor won't come back from power-saving sleep

2017-08-18 Thread Kynn Jones
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Kynn Jones wrote: > I just installed Debian on a (legacy) Optiplex 9010 desktop, and I'm > working through some kinks. > > The most serious one, by far, is that the monitor won't wake up after it > goes goes dark to save power. > > Curiously enough, the problem oc

Re: Monitor won't come back from power-saving sleep

2017-08-17 Thread Felix Miata
Kynn Jones composed on 2017-08-17 13:14 (UTC-0400): > I just installed Debian on a (legacy) Optiplex 9010 desktop, and I'm > working through some kinks. > The most serious one, by far, is that the monitor won't wake up after it > goes goes dark to save power. > Curiously enough, the problem occu

Monitor won't come back from power-saving sleep

2017-08-17 Thread Kynn Jones
I just installed Debian on a (legacy) Optiplex 9010 desktop, and I'm working through some kinks. The most serious one, by far, is that the monitor won't wake up after it goes goes dark to save power. Curiously enough, the problem occurs only when X11 is running; otherwise, hitting the shift key o

power saving issues

2013-05-14 Thread dAgeCKo
Hello, I am facing an issue on Debian Wheezy (mostly amd64). My desktop is Xfce. Each time I put my computer in sleep mode or in hibernation, when I start it back, the computer never enters sleep mode anymore: screens remain on (usually they got stop after 10 minutes) and harddrives also rem

Re: problems setting up power saving

2009-10-28 Thread Adam Hardy
green on 28/10/09 13:34, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote at 2009-10-28 04:47 -0500: green on 26/10/09 03:29, wrote: thanks for taking an interest - I re-installed lenny from scratch and these error messages don't appear any more. Plus the clicking has gone. The brute force solution! It still would b

Re: problems setting up power saving

2009-10-28 Thread green
Adam Hardy wrote at 2009-10-28 04:47 -0500: > green on 26/10/09 03:29, wrote: > thanks for taking an interest - I re-installed lenny from scratch and > these error messages don't appear any more. Plus the clicking has gone. > The brute force solution! It still would be good to check the drive wi

Re: problems setting up power saving

2009-10-28 Thread Adam Hardy
green on 26/10/09 03:29, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote at 2009-10-23 08:45 -0600: There is a continuous clicking from the harddrives - once every 10 to 15 seconds. Lastly, are these errors in the boot log anything relevant to the issue? [5.730558] Probing IDE interface ide1... [5.770508]

Re: problems setting up power saving

2009-10-25 Thread green
Adam Hardy wrote at 2009-10-23 08:45 -0600: > There is a continuous clicking from the harddrives - once every 10 to 15 > seconds. > Lastly, are these errors in the boot log anything relevant to the issue? > [5.730558] Probing IDE interface ide1... > [5.770508] end_request: I/O error, dev

problems setting up power saving

2009-10-23 Thread Adam Hardy
Hello List, I am setting up a pc with lenny as a server which I want to run 24/7 and so power saving is a big issue for me. I've got problems with it that I can't find any info about. There is a continuous clicking from the harddrives - once every 10 to 15 seconds. The commit interva

Re: Power saving in debian

2008-12-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,25.Dec.08, 19:46:05, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/12/25 Andrei Popescu : > > Unfortunately some computers (at least the older ones) won't boot at all > > without a graphics card and with one card I have you even have to have a > > monitor plugged in. > > Have you looked for a BIOS update? Yes

Re: Power saving in debian

2008-12-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/12/25 Andrei Popescu : > Unfortunately some computers (at least the older ones) won't boot at all > without a graphics card and with one card I have you even have to have a > monitor plugged in. > Have you looked for a BIOS update? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co

Re: Power saving in debian

2008-12-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:10:34 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,25.Dec.08, 09:55:32, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > for the hard disk look into laptop mode, it allows holding writing to disk > > for longer periods (cache disk writes in memory for 20-30 minutes) which > > allows the disk to spin do

Re: Power saving in debian

2008-12-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,25.Dec.08, 09:55:32, Micha Feigin wrote: > for the hard disk look into laptop mode, it allows holding writing to disk for > longer periods (cache disk writes in memory for 20-30 minutes) which allows > the > disk to spin down. Also allows playing with disk power management (look into But

Re: Power saving in debian

2008-12-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:24:40 -0800 Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 00:34:34 +0100 > "Adem" wrote: > > > Hi, > > how can I use powersaving in Debian? > > I have Debian Lenny without a GUI desktop installed. > > Mostly it is accessed via ssh and svn. > > How can I configure it so

Re: Power saving in debian

2008-12-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 00:34:34 +0100 "Adem" wrote: > Hi, > how can I use powersaving in Debian? > I have Debian Lenny without a GUI desktop installed. > Mostly it is accessed via ssh and svn. > How can I configure it so that during inactivity > the HD, CPU, fan etc lower their energy consumption?

Power saving in debian

2008-12-02 Thread Adem
Hi, how can I use powersaving in Debian? I have Debian Lenny without a GUI desktop installed. Mostly it is accessed via ssh and svn. How can I configure it so that during inactivity the HD, CPU, fan etc lower their energy consumption? Since I switch off the monitor manually, is there a way to als

script wants to know current power saving mode

2008-09-09 Thread jidanni
If I don't touch my computer for 10 minutes, the screen goes blank. After some more minutes, it goes into even more slumber. OK, how can scripts detect what state it is in? test `cat /proc/acpi/what or /sys/what` = "fully awake" && ...? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: power saving, etc..

2002-05-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 28, 2002, Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 09:28:10PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Also xscreensaver. > > And xset. Why this may not do what you think it will: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20010806172153.D31118%40navel.introspect&output=

Re: power saving, etc..

2002-05-27 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 09:28:10PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Also xscreensaver. And xset. -rob pgpCgPoFeHvaN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: power saving, etc..

2002-05-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 26, 2002, Jerome Acks Jr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 11:30:23AM +1000, Ross Tsolakidis wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Every 10 mins, my monitor basically switches off. > > First I thought, the monitor was in power saving mode, checke

RE: power saving, etc.. -SOLVED

2002-05-26 Thread Ross Tsolakidis
Title: RE: power saving, etc.. -SOLVED thank you  :) -Original Message- From: Jerome Acks Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 27 May 2002 12:28 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: power saving, etc.. On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 11:30:23AM +1000, Ross Tsolakidis

Re: power saving, etc..

2002-05-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 11:30:23AM +1000, Ross Tsolakidis wrote: > Hi all, > > Every 10 mins, my monitor basically switches off. > First I thought, the monitor was in power saving mode, checked the On Screen > Display, and the powersaving mode is off. > > So it must be X. &

power saving, etc..

2002-05-26 Thread Ross Tsolakidis
Title: power saving, etc.. Hi all, Every 10 mins, my monitor basically switches off. First I thought, the monitor was in power saving mode, checked the On Screen Display, and the powersaving mode is off. So it must be X. Any ideas ? Thanks  :) -- Ross.

thanks! (was re: monitor power saving mode?)

2001-08-18 Thread Chris Palmer
Thanks guys... :) Between the 3 of you... - Karsten M. Self - Eduard Bloch - [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've got all the specifics I'll need. Woo! I'm mostly using console right now, but I'll be setting up 2 machines using X, too, so it's cool that you guys hit both fronts. :) -Chris [EMAIL PR

Re: monitor power saving mode?

2001-08-18 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Hi... > > Is it possible to setup the display in linux to shut off > after some time of inactivity, just like (gasp) Windows? > I've been converting my machines to linux-only and I'd > like to have the monitor auto-shutoff after some time. > > Does such a thing

Re: monitor power saving mode?

2001-08-18 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Chris Palmer wrote on Sat Aug 18, 2001 um 12:54:44AM: > Is it possible to setup the display in linux to shut off > after some time of inactivity, just like (gasp) Windows? Of course. You are looking for DPMS, a monitor (VESA) feature controlled by APM. To setup this at the console, loa

Re: monitor power saving mode?

2001-08-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:54:44AM -0700, Chris Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi... > > Is it possible to setup the display in linux to shut off > after some time of inactivity, just like (gasp) Windows? > I've been converting my machines to linux-only and I'd > like to have the monitor aut

monitor power saving mode?

2001-08-18 Thread Chris Palmer
Hi... Is it possible to setup the display in linux to shut off after some time of inactivity, just like (gasp) Windows? I've been converting my machines to linux-only and I'd like to have the monitor auto-shutoff after some time. Does such a thing exist for linux? I've seen packages for managing

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-16 Thread William Jensen
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:32:54PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:43:04AM +0200, Gerald Richter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hi! > > > > anyone remember how to get the monitor not just go black, but tell it to > > use the -what was it called? > > "vesa-complia

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-16 Thread kmself
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:43:04AM +0200, Gerald Richter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > anyone remember how to get the monitor not just go black, but tell it to > use the -what was it called? > "vesa-compliant green-mode stuff-thing"... in ~/.xsession or /etc/X11/Xsession, add: xset

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-16 Thread Erik Steffl
wer_saver" # enable VESA DPMS or use xset erik > > On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 09:08:18PM -0400, John Anderson wrote: > > > > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Gerald Richter wrote: > > > > > John Anderson wrote: > > > > > > > > You have t

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread Matthew Emmett
"Eric G . Miller" writes: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 08:36:44PM -0400, John Anderson wrote: > > You have to compile a custom kernel with APM support enabled, and > > monitor power saving enabled under the apm section. The monitor > > will use power saving only i

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread Damien
> In X session `xset dpms force off' will turn off the monitor right away. > Xset manual page (section related to dpms option) tells how to set > the timing parameters to do this after a period of inactivity. doing this under x/4 just blanks my screens (the second head of the g400 usually turning

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread Denis Kosygin
Gerald Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But when I was running redhat 6.0 the X screen also blanked in a way > that made the monitor switch off... > why isn't that possible with my potato? In X session `xset dpms force off' will turn off the monitor right away. Xset manual page (section rela

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
:08:18PM -0400, John Anderson wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Gerald Richter wrote: > > > John Anderson wrote: > > > > > > You have to compile a custom kernel with APM support enabled, and monitor > > > power saving enabled under the apm section. The monitor

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 08:36:44PM -0400, John Anderson wrote: > You have to compile a custom kernel with APM support enabled, and monitor > power saving enabled under the apm section. The monitor will use power > saving only in the character mode, so if you use X exclusively, you might

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread John Anderson
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Gerald Richter wrote: > John Anderson wrote: > > > > You have to compile a custom kernel with APM support enabled, and monitor > > power saving enabled under the apm section. The monitor will use power > > saving only in the character mode, so if

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread Gerald Richter
John Anderson wrote: > > You have to compile a custom kernel with APM support enabled, and monitor > power saving enabled under the apm section. The monitor will use power > saving only in the character mode, so if you use X exclusively, you might > be out of luck. > Well, se

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread John Anderson
You have to compile a custom kernel with APM support enabled, and monitor power saving enabled under the apm section. The monitor will use power saving only in the character mode, so if you use X exclusively, you might be out of luck

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:43:04AM +0200, Gerald Richter wrote: > anyone remember how to get the monitor not just go black, but tell it to > use the -what was it called? > "vesa-compliant green-mode stuff-thing"... You want your monitor to be switched off, don't you? Did you enable "Enable conso

make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread Gerald Richter
Hi! anyone remember how to get the monitor not just go black, but tell it to use the -what was it called? "vesa-compliant green-mode stuff-thing"... Thanx! Gerald -- >< .oO > nothing like < |P| Gerald Manfred Richter > Zen < |A

Re: power saving on my desktop...

2000-05-23 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 09:30:42PM +0200, Philip Lehman wrote: > On 23 May 2000, Matthew Wilson Emmett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I'd like to have my desktop save power after 30min of inactivity. > >I've managed to do this before, but I lost my overnight cron jobs, and > >the clock always got

Re: power saving on my desktop...

2000-05-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On 23 May 2000, Matthew Wilson Emmett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'd like to have my desktop save power after 30min of inactivity. >I've managed to do this before, but I lost my overnight cron jobs, and >the clock always got skewed. Do you want that when you're in X or on the console? Three thin

power saving on my desktop...

2000-05-23 Thread Matthew Wilson Emmett
Hello all, I'd like to have my desktop save power after 30min of inactivity. I've managed to do this before, but I lost my overnight cron jobs, and the clock always got skewed. Does anyone have any experience with this? Any good tips or suggestions? Thanks, Matt

Re: power saving - A good idea

2000-05-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 05:44:15PM +0200, Vitux wrote: > How do you run this stuff at boot? (yes, newbie here...) > I get the same kind of errors :(( i wrote an initscript (/etc/init.d/hdparm): #! /bin/sh PATH=/sbin:/bin NAME=hdparm set -e case "$1" in start) echo -n "Configuring /d

Re: power saving - A good idea

2000-05-20 Thread Vitux
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 01:37:21AM -0500, w trillich wrote: > > > > i have something similar which i haven't been able to disable > > (not via bios, not via hdparm--at least i've not stumbled into > > the right parameter yet)-- > > > > kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status

Re: power saving - A good idea

2000-05-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 01:37:21AM -0500, w trillich wrote: > > i have something similar which i haven't been able to disable > (not via bios, not via hdparm--at least i've not stumbled into > the right parameter yet)-- > > kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } > kernel: ide1

Re: power saving - A good idea

2000-05-20 Thread w trillich
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > I lost a hard drive on my firewall machine recently so I looked for ways to > > conserve the drive. I enabled power saving(?) in the BIOS so that the IDE > > spins down after 5 mins of inactivity. As it is the only machine on a lot of > >

Re: power saving - A good idea

2000-05-19 Thread Aaron Solochek
truth, or if this is completly B.S.? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 19 May 2000, Chris Mason wrote: > I lost a hard drive on my firewall machine recently so I looked for ways to > conserve the drive. I enabled power saving(?) in the BIOS so that the IDE > spins down after

Re: power saving - A good idea

2000-05-19 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I lost a hard drive on my firewall machine recently so I looked for ways to > conserve the drive. I enabled power saving(?) in the BIOS so that the IDE > spins down after 5 mins of inactivity. As it is the only machine on a lot of > the time, the HD is rarely used anyway. > Any d

power saving - A good idea

2000-05-19 Thread Chris Mason
I lost a hard drive on my firewall machine recently so I looked for ways to conserve the drive. I enabled power saving(?) in the BIOS so that the IDE spins down after 5 mins of inactivity. As it is the only machine on a lot of the time, the HD is rarely used anyway. Any downside to this, will it

Re: Power saving

2000-03-28 Thread Carlos Bustamante G.
For the screen, you could use 'xset' : $ xset +dpms ; xset s blank ; xset s 120 very easy, isn't it. chao carlosb

Re: Power saving

2000-03-28 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I have CorelLinux and I dont know how can I use power saving with > harddisks and screen. > harddisk: man hdparm btw: the settings from the bios are "inherited" by linux and do no harm. screen: do you mean X? if so, then "man XF86Config" look out for powe

RE: Power saving

2000-03-28 Thread Bryan Scaringe
I believe hdparm deals with harddisk spin-down. Bryan On 27-Mar-2000 Martti Hamunen wrote: > Hello! > > I have CorelLinux and I dont know how can I use power saving with > harddisks and screen. > > Sincerely > Martti Hamunen > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mai

Power saving

2000-03-28 Thread Martti Hamunen
Hello! I have CorelLinux and I dont know how can I use power saving with harddisks and screen. Sincerely Martti Hamunen

Re: Monitor power saving (seems to be a FAQ).

1997-09-02 Thread Will Lowe
On 2 Sep 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 1 Sep 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > > > > Where do you do this? Bash_profile? > > Note: > > # File: /etc/rc.boot/0vc-powersave Oops, yeah, I found it. Thanks.

Re: Monitor power saving (seems to be a FAQ).

1997-09-02 Thread Rob Browning
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 1 Sep 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > > Where do you do this? Bash_profile? > > #!/bin/sh > > # File: /etc/rc.boot/0vc-powersave > > # Turn on power-saving on the VC's Note: # File: /etc/rc.boot/0vc-

Re: Monitor power saving (seems to be a FAQ).

1997-09-02 Thread Will Lowe
On 1 Sep 1997, Rob Browning wrote: Where do you do this? Bash_profile? > This is how I set all my consoles to all have powersaving enabled: > > #!/bin/sh > # File: /etc/rc.boot/0vc-powersave > # Turn on power-saving on the VC's > > test -f /usr/bin/setter

Monitor power saving (seems to be a FAQ).

1997-09-02 Thread Rob Browning
There are really 2 issues: getting X to do power saving, and getting the text console to do power saving. This is how I set all my consoles to all have powersaving enabled: #!/bin/sh # File: /etc/rc.boot/0vc-powersave # Turn on power-saving on the VC's test -f /usr/bin/setterm ||

Re: power saving monitor

1997-03-27 Thread Stefan Walder
On Wed, 26 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a 'green' monitor. Since I leave my computer on for long periods > I'd love it if it could be put into power saving mode after a certain > length of time. I seem to recall reading that this is possible, but > can

Re: power saving monitor

1997-03-26 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Wed, 26 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a 'green' monitor. Since I leave my computer on for long periods > I'd love it if it could be put into power saving mode after a certain > length of time. I seem to recall reading that this is possible, but > can

Re: power saving monitor

1997-03-26 Thread sacampbe
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > In X windows or regular console? Guy already answered the question. Works great! Now I can sleep comfortably knowing my monitor is happy. - Sue

Re: power saving monitor

1997-03-26 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have a 'green' monitor. Since I leave my computer on for long periods > I'd love it if it could be put into power saving mode after a certain > length of time. I seem to recall reading that this is possible, but > can't remember where

power saving monitor

1997-03-26 Thread sacampbe
I have a 'green' monitor. Since I leave my computer on for long periods I'd love it if it could be put into power saving mode after a certain length of time. I seem to recall reading that this is possible, but can't remember where and can't find the source again. Any pointers? - Sue