[NTLUG:Discuss] no one has such problem? was: Is there a such 'low power stan

[MadHat]

At 05:13 PM 1/18/2002 +0000, m m wrote:

>>From: MadHat <madhat at unspecific.com>
>>
>>The reason that would fix it is because the machine never has time to be
>>idle.  Very odd situation.  Have you recompiled your kernel, or are you
>>running the default?  And which distro was this?
>
>RedHat 6.2
>I recompiled the kernel and updated to 2.4.14 kernel without AMP support.
>and I think that I shouldn't have any power management package installed.
>(anyone can tell me what are the packages is for power managemant?)
>someone told me that you can have monitor goes blank without power manager 
>(do 'setterm -blank ...'). I am afraid that there is some thing similar 
>shell commands for setting harddrive, printer... idle for a certain amount 
>of time.
>and I don't know the command to disable the setting. for example,
>I recompiled the kernel and updated to 2.4.14 kernel without AMP support. 
>and no screen saver package installe. I don't use X windows, onlt text 
>mode. my monitor still goes blank after a while idle. now I know I control 
>by setterm command, but  for other devices (harddrive...), how do I know 
>what's going, where to set if there such features?

Just an idea.  You could try adding a line to you /etc/syslog.conf to log 
all messages (by default a lot of messages are dropped.  A line like
*.*             /var/log/all
would log everything.  There might be a message form whatever is suspending 
the network.

What type of hardware is it?  Make and model, or BIOS type?


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