On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 02:58, Ryan, Brandon Ray wrote: > THANKS MATT!!!! > > I'm forever in your debt (well lets just say until the arbitrarily chosen date of >next Tuesday)... > > "linux apm=off" did the trick. I had no idea what was wrong, and I have found other >posts online of other people with the same problem who did not get an answer. I >guess it was power management all along. I tried to disable it in the BIOS, but that >wasn't enough. Linux had to give it up too. > > It seems I remember the latest version of Mandrake (gasp!; forgive me for >mentioning this on a RedHat list) wouldn't boot either with the same problem; however >Redhat 7.3 was fine. Seems they used an older kernel than Mandrake. > > Anyway, I have an AMD Athlon 1Ghz on a Kadoka motherboard all assembled by the fine >folks at Gateway 2 years ago. Now my machine has RedHat 8 and I am happy as a mouse >in a room full of cheese.
Funky. RHL 8.0 is the first that tries to use APM idle, because it usually saves a LOT of battery life and according to the Mandrake developer I discussed it with, it didn't break in practice ;( Anyway can you please try apm=idle-threshold=100 instead of apm=off to narrow down the breakage? And can you send me (off list) the output of the dmidecode program (part of the kernel-utils package) so that I can mark your machine as "can't do APM" (or can't do APM idle, if that's the only thing that turns out bust) Greetings, Arjan van de Ven
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