RE: anacron, VGA text mode

2004-11-19 Thread Alejandro Lopez
Guys, Just a quick note to thank Free, Robin, Derek, Bob and Mauro for your very useful hints with regards to this issue. It turned out that I had powermgmt-base already installed (and thus on_ac_power was there). Thanks to Bob I can see the way it works, and since I don't have any battery in t

Re: anacron, VGA text mode

2004-11-15 Thread Mauro Darida
I experienced similar problems with anacron, when I went for ACPI from APM. I simply removed anacron and used cron with sensible timings. Saluti, Mauro. -- On this laptop no Windows system survives and LINUX POWER reigns UNLIMITED. GnuPG key ID: 28A61681 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: anacron, VGA text mode

2004-11-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Alejandro Lopez wrote: > 1. When anacron is started during boot up, it reports something like > "anacron: deferred while on battery power". The battery of this laptop was > [...] > matter the power source but no joy. I've been suggested that this may be > controlled through some "power managemen

Re: anacron, VGA text mode

2004-11-12 Thread Derek Broughton
On Friday 12 November 2004 05:01, Alejandro Lopez wrote: > > 1. When anacron is started during boot up, it reports something like > "anacron: deferred while on battery power". ... > I've been suggested that this may be > controlled through some "power management software, APM or ACPI". What do >