[vox-tech] Laptop Going to Sleep In Console Mode

[Daniel Hurt]

Unfortunately yes.  I have also have searched through the Gentoo forums.
Also this place sometimes has good information:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-dell-laptops/

I was just checking to see if it was a common/easily fixed problem.

I really can just use the terminals inside of X.

dan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: vox-tech-admin@lists.lugod.org [mailto:vox-tech-
> admin@lists.lugod.org] On Behalf Of Peter Jay Salzman
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 10:50 AM
> To: vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
> Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Laptop Going to Sleep In Console Mode
> 
> On Wed 03 Dec 03, 10:20 AM, Daniel Hurt <dwhurt@ucdavis.edu> said:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: vox-tech-admin@lists.lugod.org [mailto:vox-tech-
> > > admin@lists.lugod.org] On Behalf Of Mark Street
> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 9:38 AM
> > > To: vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
> > > Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Laptop Going to Sleep In Console Mode
> > >
> > > Most likely an apm feature that was activated.
> > >
> >
> > I am not sure what you mean by this.  I am not using APM at the moment
> and
> > have all its features disabled in the Kernel.  I am using ACPI instead.
> Are
> > they direct replacements for one another?  I was under the impression
> that
> > they were very different.
> >
> > >
> > > Do you use KDE or Gnome?
> > > The place to look would be in /etc, on Red Hat it is located in
> > > /etc/sysconfig/apmd and /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/
> > >
> >
> > I am using Gnome when I have to use X.  I poked around a little in gnome
> and
> > could not really find something similar when I was disabling the screen
> > saver.  The apmd service is currently not running and is not set up to
> start
> > with the computer (located in /etc/init.d/ ).
> >
> > > If you use KDE you can reset this behavior in Control Center - Power
> > > Control -
> > > Display Power Control.  I assume you may have activated this and not
> known
> > > the consequences.  Read the apmd file referenced above and the
> apmscript
> > > file
> > > found in apm-scripts directory... or something like it as I am not
> that
> > > familiar with gentoo filesystem structure.
> 
> dumb questions -- have you tried looking at the linux-for-laptops site
> for issues with your particular laptop?  google?
> 
> pete
> 
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