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Re: Mandrake



On Saturday  5 May 2001 18:54, Darin Lang wrote:
> on 5/5/01 9:45 AM, Jean Francois Martinez at jfm2@club-internet.fr wrote:
> > On Saturday  5 May 2001 03:39, Darin Lang wrote:
> >> Mandrake also shuts my computer off (crashes it) if I leave it idle for
> >> more than an hour, every time. Anyone know how to fix that?
> >
> > Could you tell me the symptoms?  Are you using X?  What is your hardware?
> >
> > JFM
>
> I seem to have handled this by shutting off APM in the system BIOS. It was
> set to shut the computer off if it is idle for 50 minutes. Apparently KDE's
> energy saver reset it, as I later discovered in KDE there was an energy
> saver panel that was set to shut down after 50 minutes off being idle. only
> it was a hard shut down, pull the plug shut down. I disabled that too. Now
> it only shuts down the monitor after 15 minutes.

I haven't tried it but it could be that some idiot left the laptop config 
file as default.   But it should not crash but amke a clean powerdown.

			JFM