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laptop power issues
cdhgold:
i have redhat7.2 running on my dell inspiron 8000 and everything runs great except for one problem i'm hoping someone on here has a answer for when i start GNOME while running on battery power the system hard locks otherwise system runs fine and i will be switching enitrely to linux soonas i get more comfortable with it. the kernal i have is the latest one 2.4.9.13 i think (don't laptop in front of me so may be off on that)
thanks for any help in advance
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by cdhgold:
i have redhat7.2 running on my dell inspiron 8000 and everything runs great except for one problem i'm hoping someone on here has a answer for when i start GNOME while running on battery power the system hard locks otherwise system runs fine and i will be switching enitrely to linux soonas i get more comfortable with it. the kernal i have is the latest one 2.4.9.13 i think (don't laptop in front of me so may be off on that)
thanks for any help in advance
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I'm running RH7.2 on a Dell Lattitude but am using KDE without that problem. Have you tried turning off or adjusting the APM settings in both the Gnome configuration and in your BIOS and see if it has any effect? I'll do some searching in the meantime to see if there is an answer on the net.
cdhgold:
have not tried adjusting the apm settings but i will how do i adjust them in linux? learning linux but still ahve long way to go ..btw my personal server preference is neither unix or windoze although i do give unix credit where credit is due i'm a proud and loyal NOVELL HEAD myself
thansk for the advice
LOVE LIVE BIG RED!!!!!
cdhgold
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by cdhgold:
have not tried adjusting the apm settings but i will how do i adjust them in linux? learning linux but still ahve long way to go ..btw my personal server preference is neither unix or windoze although i do give unix credit where credit is due i'm a proud and loyal NOVELL HEAD myself
thansk for the advice
LOVE LIVE BIG RED!!!!!
cdhgold
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Heh heh, I used to do a lot of Novell work but left off at 3.12. I did install 5 once and was tickled to see the X based setup (I had been into UNIX long before my Novell days).
As far as Gnome and APM, I just logged out of KDE and into Gnome and it does not appear that Gnome has integrated APM support like KDE (coulda swore it used to). At any rate, if you go to "Start Here"->Settings->Services you can uncheck "apmd" and stop the service and save the config. See if that has any effect.
Also you might try and log in to KDE and see if you have the same behavior (might try that before turning off APM).
Another possibility is APM settings in the BIOS when on battery.
Not having come up with anything in my search results the only other thing I can think of is the "Suspend to Disk" functionality of the Dell. I believe this is remote. I do have that working on my machine as well. You have to create a suspend partition just like for Windows using the Dell suspend tools, not sure about the inspiron.
You might go to your BIOS APM configuration and make the settings the same when on battery as they are when on wall power. I think that should stop any lockup for sure but you lose your power savings...
Good luck
cdhgold:
quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
Heh heh, I used to do a lot of Novell work but left off at 3.12. I did install 5 once and was tickled to see the X based setup (I had been into UNIX long before my Novell days).
As far as Gnome and APM, I just logged out of KDE and into Gnome and it does not appear that Gnome has integrated APM support like KDE (coulda swore it used to). At any rate, if you go to "Start Here"->Settings->Services you can uncheck "apmd" and stop the service and save the config. See if that has any effect.
Also you might try and log in to KDE and see if you have the same behavior (might try that before turning off APM).
Another possibility is APM settings in the BIOS when on battery.
Not having come up with anything in my search results the only other thing I can think of is the "Suspend to Disk" functionality of the Dell. I believe this is remote. I do have that working on my machine as well. You have to create a suspend partition just like for Windows using the Dell suspend tools, not sure about the inspiron.
You might go to your BIOS APM configuration and make the settings the same when on battery as they are when on wall power. I think that should stop any lockup for sure but you lose your power savings...
Good luck
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