io333 Posted July 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2004 Tried the 2.6.3.15 kernel. NOW I know what they ment by 263-7 in lilo, it was the kernel version! Still no monitor turn off. I am quietly going mad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 (edited) do this; urpmi acpi acpid if already installed do; chkconfig acpid on chkconfig acpi on otherwise just do; chkconfig apmd off edit lilo.conf for all kernels except failsafe to say; append="devfs=mount acpi=on splash=silent" and run; lilo -v reboot shutdown Edited July 9, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 [root@localhost a]# service -s | grep apmUsage: lsmod Usage: lsmod [root@localhost a]# did you put; apm=on in the bootloader? Is that even a kernel parameter? :unsure: the above quote indicates apmd is not even installed. Well, neither is acpi and acpid. I'm suprised the hd shutsdown. Or does it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
io333 Posted July 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 I'm suprised the hd shutsdown. Or does it? Gosh, that's a darn good question. It accepts the hdparm parameters thrown at it -- I was just assuming the drives were shutting down, but I have an A/C next to me (gotta keep the processor cool!!) and can't hear the drives. I'll turn the A/C off for a while & listen. I'll try the other stuff above too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
io333 Posted July 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 bvc, I followed your instructions. ACPI and ACPID were not installed. I installed them. After reboot, they are now both running as services, whereas before there was nothing. When I do "chkconfig apmd off" it says: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- root@localhost b]# chkconfig apmd off error reading information on service apmd: No such file or directory [root@localhost b]# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- but when I do "urpmi apm apmd" it says: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [root@localhost b]# urpmi apm apmd The following packages contain apm: apmd libapm1 libapm1-devel [root@localhost b]# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ so they must already be installed. But they are not running in the background as services. My lilo.conf is passing the append acpi argument as instructed. I figure it must be working from lilo or ACPI wouldn't be running as a service now? One of my hard drives is spinning down, the other is not. I'm pretty sure the one that isn't spinning down is the one I'm running the linux partition off of, so it may be that for some reason Mandrake is poking at the drive once and a while and keeping it from spinning down. However, the drive was still spinning down *before* I installed ACPI. and finally: The monitors are *still* not turning off. But I feel like I'm getting closer, yes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
io333 Posted July 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 OK, it works now. I had to add into my XFree86Config-4 file this line: under section "Monitor" option "DPMS" Actually I had to add it twice because I have two monitors and Xinerama. THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEA HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 :woops: :D :D :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 (edited) First, realize you do not want both acpi and apm. Which ever the kernel detects first it what it'll use. I suggest acpi because apm is all but dead...acpi is the new. If you do urpmi apmd it'll either be installed or already is. rpm -q apmd will tell you if it is installed. Actually no. In ML-10 if no acpi= <parameter> is in the bootloader and /proc/acpi/* is found then acpi=ht will be what is used, which is why acpi=on must be given for acpi to hopefully, completely work. if acpi=ht or acpi=on doesn't shut everything down properly, (don't forget to run lilo -v) and you've upgrade the kernel, and you do not have buggy bios, then uninstall acpi and install apmd. Also, back in 9.1 and 9.2 I had to pass noapic acpi=off not noacpi......noapic and use apmd. So there's another option. Edited July 9, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
io333 Posted July 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 Wow. This is the first time *ever* I've had a linux installation where EVERYTHING worked perfectly. After about 5 years of messing with it. Wierd. Well almost everything. There's the little problem of postscript output being dumped raw to the printer sometimes..... I think I'll have to leave that for another day... I'm going to have a glass of wine and go to bed. Dear God, what in the world will I do when a new verison of ML comes out? Mess with a perfect system and start all over again. Is there a pill I can take to make me stop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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