[expert] suspend mode to save energy

2003-03-24 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi List! My new computer does not show anything about APM in bios, but I have ACPI. Under Winblows XP I can put my system in suspend. I wonder how can I do the same thing under MDK 9.0? Which command? Maybe, first, I must see if I'm able to do it, but how can I check it

Re: [expert] suspend mode to save energy

2003-03-24 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
A stoc mandrake 9.0 kernel does not have support for ACPI compiled in. You have to recompile your kernel and add ACPI support. Ralph On Monday 24 March 2003 01:24 pm, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: > Hi List! > > My new computer does not show anything about APM in bios, but I > have ACP

Re: [expert] suspend mode to save energy

2003-03-24 Thread Sascha Noyes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is also possible to install a cooker kernel on a 9.0 system. You just have to make sure that the appropriate modules (battery, fan, etc.) get loaded at bootup. (Put them in /etc/modules) It is therefore not necessary to recompile the kernel. Best

Re: [expert] suspend mode to save energy

2003-03-24 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Thank you Ralph. I think something like that could be happening. I hope to not have problems compiling kernel, but after that, which commands should I have to do to put my computer in suspend? On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > A stoc mandrake 9.0 kernel does not have support for ACP

Re: [expert] suspend mode to save energy

2003-03-24 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Once you recompile the kernel i'm not sure about the commands but in KDE you will see an icon in the system tray, if you right click on it you can control the ACPI functions. HOWEVER in the 2.4.20 kernel that I'm using suspend/standby are not currently supported. Now I'm not positave if it is K

Re: [expert] suspend mode to save energy

2003-03-24 Thread Sascha Noyes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 March 2003 14:07, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: > Thank you Ralph. > > I think something like that could be happening. > > I hope to not have problems compiling kernel, but after that, which > commands should I have to do to put my com

Re: [expert] suspend mode to save energy

2003-03-24 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Recompiling your kernel is not so bad. Actualy it gives you the chance to remove alot of features you don't need and also allows you to change the architecture to your specific architecture = faster leaner kernel. Besides you need to learn to compile your kernel sometime. Ralph On Monday 24 Ma

Re: [expert] suspend mode to save energy

2003-03-24 Thread Sascha Noyes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I actually had to recompile my kernel to get it to work with my specific hardware, and it was a very interesting experience. It is not necessarily true though that you´ll end up with a faster kernel. Smaller kernel, definately - but not necessarily

Re: [expert] suspend mode to save energy

2003-03-24 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Verry true. I like mandrake alot. I use it for almost everything except my laptop. I like to use the latest stuff on it and not have to worry about when or if a new release is comming out. So for my laptop I use Lunar-Linux. In fact I'm writing this with KMail in KDE3.1.1! Verry nice looking an

Re: [expert] suspend mode to save energy

2003-03-25 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Some results from some tests. First I tried apm -s in MDK 9.0. I got something like "APM not support in kernel". Ok, I recompiled a kernel setting ACPI at least (now I don't remember about APM). New kernel still give the same APM not ... I'll wait new MDK 9.1. It's just for fun. Cheers, --

Re: [expert] suspend mode to save energy

2003-03-25 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Turn APM off. If you use ACPI you don't use APM and vice vers. Ralph  :-) Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Some results from some tests. First I tried apm -s in MDK 9.0. I got something like "APM not support in kernel". Ok, I recompiled a kernel setting ACPI at least (now I don't rem

Re: [expert] suspend mode to save energy

2003-03-25 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 06:33, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: > Some results from some tests. > > First I tried apm -s in MDK 9.0. I got something like "APM not support in > kernel". > > Ok, I recompiled a kernel setting ACPI at least (now I don't remember > about APM). > > New kernel still gi