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

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

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

[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

duh don't i feel like a windoze user ..hahah hit add reply before i meant to ..anyway thansk for the info that gives me several thigns i can try will let you know what happens and as side note the main web server in netware6 is APACHE and tomcat

chris
LOVE LIVE BIG RED and UNIX

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by cdhgold:

duh don't i feel like a windoze user ..hahah hit add reply before i meant to

Web site hint: Click the ICON just to the left of the quote marks (the one you use to quote-reply to a message).  This will allow you to edit your own post so if you slip you can go back and change it.

 

quote:
 ..anyway thansk for the info that gives me several thigns i can try will let you know what happens and as side note the main web server in netware6 is APACHE and tomcat

Awesome!  Too bad they weren't about 5 years earlier in doing this, maybe Microsoft wouldn't have cramped them as much as they have.

[ January 10, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[cdhgold]

quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:


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.


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

finally got time to try your suggestions and the problem does not exist in KDE only in GNOME .. will try stopping the service tonight in GNOME and let you know what happens

thansk again for your help