| gabriel rosenkoetter on Mon, 17 Feb 2003 22:45:14 -0500 |
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On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:03:01PM -0500, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > When I use KDE/kppp everything is fine because KDE's screen savers > prevent the energy star stuff from kicking in. > > When I use rp3 with Window Maker, a sleeping monitor is accompanied by a > disconnected serial modem (and a stalled print job). > > When I use ifup with Window Maker, a sleeping monitor is accompanied by > a disconnected serial modem, . . . but . . . as soon as I "wake up" the > monitor by moving the mouse, ifup automatically reconnects. Not an > adequate solution for long downloads, but an interesting convenience for > email checking. This screams "you need to configure apmd properly". On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:55:03PM -0500, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 21:13, Paul wrote: > > Your system may not be configured to monitor activity on the IRQ > > handling the modem. > Which I assume is configured at the bios level Yes, if you have a smart enough BIOS to let you control that. But your problem really sounds, to me, like apmd getting dfferent signals from KDE than it does from Window Maker (it probably gets none from the latter). man apmd, man -k apm. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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