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Dow Hurst wrote:
> Normally apm and acpi are exclusive so one or the other but not both.  
> Your kernel probably is too old for a new motherboard with new acpi.
> Dow
> 
> 
> Berlin Brown wrote:
> 
>>  have been scratching my head on this.  I just put together a machine, 
>> I have put 8-10 machines together in the last couple of years.  
>> Anyway, I use my default Mandrake 9.1 install, on my other machines, I 
>> never have to worry about the monitor or CPU shutting down.  This 
>> machine which is an AMD1.7,generic Socket-A board(PCBOARDS? bought in 
>> Norcross actually), very new board, the monitor or harddrive will not 
>> suspend.  I am not at the machine, but I remember it had an 'Energy 
>> Ally' logo that displayed on boot, in the BIOS, I had apm and acpi 
>> enabled, and I think an 45min and an hour.
>>  
>> I went to KDE3.1(Control Center) and made sure the Enable Power 
>> Management are set and the are, the times dont match for
>> example I have 22 minutes for the Monitor suspend and 40 minutes for 
>> the machine suspend.
>>  
>> Normally I never touch lilo, but I decided to change one of the kernel 
>> options to acpi=force?(actually that may have worked, I will find out 
>> tonight).  Should I use apm=force also?
>>  
>> Anybody have any ideas, like I have said, normally I never worry about 
>> power management, it just works.  I am thinking that my board is too 
>> new and doesnt work with this kernel which is 2.4.21.
>>  
>> It doesnt really bother me, I guess I dont care if my monitor runs all 
>> day, just strange is all.  And are there any benefits at all for 
>> powering down a machine, suspending the monitor?
>>
>>  
>> Sorry if I Sent this twice, email problems
>>  
>> Berlin Brown
>>
>>
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