Try a couple things.
a) Is it really powering down? Try Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to see if it's just X
locking up, I've had this problem on one of my laptops.
b) Try disabling apmd and see if it goes away via:
chkconfig apmd off
/etc/init.d/apmd stop
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 05:06:56PM -0400, Andrew Schaefer wrote:
> I am running 7.2 beta on my Dell Inspiron 3800 laptop. It runs fine
> except it seems that after about 30 min of inactivity it powers off.
> Is this some kind of power saving feature from hell? I ran 7.1 fine
> all summer on this machine, and never had this happen. Haven't
> changed anything in the bios, so I would guess it's some kind of
> "feature" new to 7.2. Can someone point me in the right direction on
> turning it off? Whatever it is it's just powering it off, no
> shutdown or init level change is logged, and reiser has to run it's
> quick rebuild thing when I turn it back on. apmd isn't running, and
> this is a full install of CD 1 using the "expert" install. I am
> using gnome as my desktop environment.
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