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From: Scott Garrison <sgarrison(a)unc.edu>
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
Sent: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 21:26:10 -0500
Subject: funny powersave kind of thing with Fedora
I'm running FC 1 on an old IBM Aptiva (AMD K6). Runs great,
including VNC now, etc.
I must've done something to cause the following problem, but can't
seem to resolve it myself (have turned off apmd, doesn't fix it):
After 30 minutes of inactivity, my system goes into some kind of
powersave mode. The monitor goes into standby, and the CPU does a
funny 'half shutdown' where the powerlight blinks on and off, the
fans are still running, but the system is unresponsive at the
console or remotely (e.g. via ssh).
When I press the power switch, it comes back to life--monitor comes
back on, etc.. I'm taking this system to be hosted at Ohio State
this weekend, so naturally, I need it not to go into this weird mode
on me every 30 minutes (me sitting at my VNC and ssh client in
Michigan).
Thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have!
--SG
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Scott Garrison, M.L.S.
Adjunct Faculty
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
e: sgarrison(a)unc.edu
v: 989.400.3463
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Sounds like a BIOS setting is over riding the Linux settings. You may need to
disable this function in the BIOS.
Wolf