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?

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, checked the On Screen > > Display, and

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. > Any ideas ? Look in y

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

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 > > the time, the HD is rarely

Re: power saving - A good idea

2000-05-19 Thread Aaron Solochek
The downside is accessing the drive for the first time after that 5minutes. I was told, and this could be completely false, that scsi drives are designed to basically run constantly, while ide drives not. I heard this accounts for a lot of the price difference. Does anyone know if this has any

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 downside to this,

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 power_saver, OffTime, SuspendTime, BlankTime

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? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >

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't remember where and can't find

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't remember where and can't find

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 and can't find the source again.