Well, I would guess Linux does not have the information to wake up something
shut down by a hardware or firmware power manager.
I turned off the power savers on board and let my machine hum. I use it as
an alarm clock, you see. The mp3s I hate the most blare at me from the
other side of the room after 7 hours of the machine's sitting there. And I
am running KDE, vigmeup, and Kppp.
Civileme
Eric Mings wrote:
> One of the main reasons I started using linux was the much touted great
> reliability and minimal crashes. However recently I have had considerable
> problems with the machine (pentium 450) freezing up when left alone for
> several hours. The situation is that I am running KDE and using Kppp to
> maintain a connection to my ISP. No other programs are running during
> these times except daemons. When I return to the machine my mouse is
> completely unresponsive as is the keyboard. At first I thought maybe a
> screen saver was doing it, but it did the same thing last night with no
> screen saver running. I have looked at the system log but don't see
> anything obvious. Ideas and suggestions for solving this would be greatly
> appreciated!
>
> Regards,
>
> Eric Mings Ph.D.
