[ltp] apm on R50 with 2.6.9 kernel

[Ayaz Ahmed Khan]

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Chris typed:

> My laptop will blank the screen if 5min idle time is detected and suspend
> to ram after another 5 min of idle time, i have tried to change such
> behaviour through kde power management in kde as well as through BIOS,
> neither has, as far as i can tell, solved the problem, can any one else
> give me a hand?

As far as the blanking of screen is concerned, I'd suggest you to read
the man page for ``setterm''.  I've used APM on this baby running
slackware-9.1 for more than half a year and have not seen APM
automatically throw my system into suspend mode, unless of course I've
explicitly had instructed the BIOS to suspend the system.  Just thinking
about this, it all makes sense.  Unlike ACPI, APM hands over power
management responsibilities to the BIOS;  and if the system is
suspending presistently after some idle time period, it is a good
guess something in the BIOS is set and is invoking the action.

- -- 
Ayaz Ahmed Khan, unixforge.org/~ayaz/

"An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping
 on to the grand fallacy."
              -- Weinberg's Principle
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