[techtalk] linux in sleep mode

[Vinnie]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Lora wrote:
> Megan McGuire wrote:
> > My laptop goes into sleep mode after a while in screen saver, but I
> > cant ever wake it up, I end up having to restart... is there a way to
> > turn off sleep mode? I'm using Mandrake 7.2 and KDE.

I've been having the 'can't wake up' problem on my P-III, and I don't know
whether it's BIOS or kernel related yet. You can turn off sleep mode in
the bios and/or recompile the kernel to not use APM if the control-panel
fix doesn't work. I'd suggest killing it in BIOS, personally.

V.