For me going standby also does not work and going into suspend mode causes such a serious lockup I have to remove the power and the battery ! I trust now you'll see a) I'm not the only one with suspend / stanby problems and b) I didn't just make it all up ! Owen On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, you wrote: > In 7.1 KDPMS and kcmlaptop are included and can be started and set but don't > seem to work. While the power saving feature of the DPMS monitor works, the > time settings seems to keep resetting to the default. kcmlaptop seems to be > unable to use the power saving features of laptops (suspend, standby etc) > which it could do in 7 (even with changing the permissions on the apm > binary). Finally kapm which is installed by default into the autostart > folder of a laptop fails to go to suspend mode - if you choose suspend or > standby it asks you for the root password and then fails to go to standby. > > There are also no settings for any of these in the standard kde control > panel. > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com