On Tuesday 17 February 2004 20:46, Steve Kaufman wrote: > > Here's todays problem and it is a big one that if I can't fix I may > have to stop using LInux. Intermittently (almost every day) if I > leave my pc sit inactive for some period of time it will just > lockup to where I can not even power off the pc with the power > button. I have to turn off at the surge protector. > I'm not a gambler, but I would put my £1 on ACPI. I've seen exactly the same with windows on some boxes, and I had the same problems when I first installed Mandrake 8.2. Basically, it is trying to do its 'power management' thing, and not altogether succeeding :-)
IIRC, the solution is to add acpi=off on the append line of each lilo stanza. Don't forget that you have to run /sbin/lilo from a root console whenever you edit anything in lilo. HTH Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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