powersaved , suse 9.1 ???
 

i just installed suse 9.1 and all works great but power management. I can't seem to get it to work. First i wanted to use apm and set (for example) 10 minutes till standby in kde control center - power management, but when i did that it started to enter standby at random times, never when it should. So i disabled that and checked out the powersave feature. I don't really know what this is but it doesn't work. For instance i set it up to enter stanby when i push the sleep button,.. it did nothing. running powersave -u also nothing. I didn't have installed acpi, so no acpid running, no apmd running.
What should i do to get it running ?
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Also for example gaim does not detect x usage (to set me away after a number of minutes of not using mouse or keyboard).
Please help, this is really imporrtant to me

I had a few problems with power management too, though they were different. Basically I just force ACPI on so that I can use the power management functions -- SuSE detected APM but I know my computer had ACPI.

THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW ONLY WORK FOR THE GRUB BOOT LOADER!!

Log on as root and edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file so that menu entry that boots Linux has "apm=off acpi=force" in the kernel string. See mine below:

Then reboot. ACPI should now be active and all the power management stuff should work. To configure it use YaST. You're screensaver should work now too.

Thats it :) there must be some similar thing for the LILO boot loader but since I dont use it I dont really know how to configure it.

Didn't work. running powersave -u does exactly the same as before, nothing. And gaim still isn't aware of x usage.
Does acpi daemon need to be running ? At the moment neither acpid or apmd is running.

well I have acpi=on in my grub and I 'seem' to get a level of power management. My processor runs cooler and the fan switches of from time to time. My function keys work. I get the a message of powersave not running or you need to be in the powersave group. (I know its running cause I see the service startup during boot).

I can't go on standby/hibernation either. I suspect I have to recompile my kernel???

how do you make 9.1 Acoustic wait longer???
 

under lilo, enter acpi (or noacpi) in the append line. pick yer poison.

i have it working fine, got rid of the not running nag label by removing powersave from the boot conf, rebooting, then restarting the gui manually, no probs.
what i find aggravating is it's only set for 20 seconds. on-off-on-off. grrrrrrr.
i just want the hard drive to run for a little longer, before the Acoustic setting shuts it down. a half hour would be nice. anybody know what/where i can edit/butcher the idle timer on kpowersave?
-O.