[ale] weird problem with screensaver and stand-by mode

[Van Loggins]

It turns out that my problem has two parts, after my last post it 
started freezing up on me, I was unable to ssh into the system and I had 
the ssh server running and accepting connections.

1. The original bios for this motherboard had some issues with power 
saving,etc. and this may have been contributing to the problems I was 
having, I flashed the bios to the latest version available for the board.

2. the case for this computer had a cheap generic 300 watt ATX Power 
supply, when I checked the output voltages the 12 volt output was around 
11.39 under a normal load, this seemed to be awfully low to me so I 
replaced it with a 425 watt Power Supply purchased from Frys.

When I flashed the bios it helped some, but it didn't solve the entire 
problem, the system would still periodically freeze, but it stopped the 
screen saver from coming on for no reason.

After I replaced the Power Supply I'm getting 11.89 volts from the 12 
volt outputs and the system is no longer exhibiting problems with 
freezing,etc.

So I think I fixed it, but I will have to do a burn-in for a week or two 
to see if it freezes up again, or has any other problems.


>Thanks for the advice James, I got so fed up with it last night that I
>did the following to it (not sure which item fixed it), and one of the
>changed items seems to have fixed it.
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>Here is what I changed.
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>1. edited grub.conf and added the line noacpi to default kernel entry
>2. disabled acpi service
>3. completely disabled screensaver.
>4. disabled lmsensors service.
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>One of these actions seems to have fixed the problem. I was able to
>use the computer the rest of the evening with no problems. I left it
>on and running with the monitor turned off so I'll know for sure when
>I check this evening. If it did fix it, I will try changing each item
>back individually to see if I can figure out exactly what fixed the
>problem.
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>>Message: 7
>>Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 20:54:11 -0400
>>From: "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
>>Subject: Re: [ale] weird problem with screensaver and stand-by mode
>>      for     fedora core 5
>>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>>Message-ID: <1144112051.6493.36.camel at merlin.localnetsolutions.com>
>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
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>>Sounds like a conflict between apmd and the bios power management.
>>Reboot, goto the bios and turn off all power management and see if it
>>clears up.
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>>On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 20:34 -0400, Van Loggins wrote:
>>I'm having a rather unusual problem with fedora core 5.
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>>system is a home-built system that has up until it was replaced with a
>>new XPS 200 Dell system ran windows xp professional with only the
>>usual problems that windows has (viruses, spyware,etc.)
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>>system specs:
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