Re, Re: [ltp] apm on R50 with 2.6.9 kernel

[Chris]

>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.

i have figured it out after some investigations into the packages that i
have installed, it's actually the Debian package called 'sleepd' put the
system into sleep or suspend, also i can change the time interval in both
AC and battery mode.