[buug] Redhat 9 comatose problem

Bill Honeycutt wfhoney at pacbell.net
Mon Oct 20 15:55:28 PDT 2003


I've had similar problems with rh9 until I turned off power management 
at the bios level.  Reboot and see if you have any power saver options set.

johnd wrote:

>what about the power management stuff at the os level?
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>is that off?
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>can you still ssh in to it?
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>also, check if there is anyinfo in the /var/log/messages or whatever
>the log file is called.
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>On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 02:55:05PM -0700, Skip Evans wrote:
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>>Hey all,
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>>I've got a Redhat 9 install up and working good on a machine that
>>used to run Windows XP. Everything works very good, including
>>Wine running a few MS apps. But if I leave the machine alone for
>>say 5 or 10 minutes, I typically come back to, instead of the
>>screen saver, just a blank screen that won't wake up by keyboard
>>or mouse activity. I've tried to narrow it down to one or two
>>apps, maybe the MS stuff for example, but haven't really come up
>>with anything.
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>>I've turned off all power management functions I can find in the
>>bios, and scoured Redhat discussion boards for anyone with a
>>similar problem, but haven't found anything yet.
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>>Any ideas?
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>>-- 
>>Skip Evans
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