-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 October 12, 2003 05:52 am, ed tharp wrote: [..] > just a guess, the fan is spinning down to save power, but the CPU is not > going all the way to sleep. (zombies?) > You beat me to that one Ed. (-:
He said he's a "total noob" though so you may want to stay away from talking about zombies without first explaining that he can see what's running in the background with top in a terminal. And that if any process is marked with the "z" denoting a zombie that he should try killing it with by striking the k button on his keyboard then typing the PID number and following the prompt. It's all academic anyway isn't it? I still think the alarm may be going off because of a conflict. Whether an APM or ACPI problem, a combination of factors, or something else entirely. He needs to try to give some detail about the install, hardware specifications, etc. Such as; did he do the install, or was it some well meaning soul that didn't explain much and/or possibly didn't know. Since Mandrake Linux won't keep a user from doing silly things this is probably something fairly easy to diagnose and fix for the person with the system in front of him. Rather more difficult for e-mail support though. It's an interesting conundrum though. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 10:41:25 up 22 days, 3 min, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.06, 0.09 When the cup is full, carry it level. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/iYcuG11CaRuZZSIRAoYHAJwPIZNbIPLB3g4PMQ0iif1tWahAjQCfWzca qxi0Kk9UB/MRSXFUUpqemk4= =lC65 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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