On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 11:48, Matthew C. Tedder wrote:
>
> Has there been a fix for the bug that causes Mandrake 9.0 to shut down at
> totally unexpected moments?
>
> Frankly, this is very bad for my Computer Cafe.
>
> Matthew
>
I have not seen this bug reported either, but I ran into something that
may be similar when i first booted MDK 9.
My problem was this:
Any time that I would press Alt and any other key (perhaps it was Ctrl
-- I don't quite remember now... and I'm not sure if it was any other
key, but I know at least Delete and Left Arrow did it) my computer
would go into a suspend mode. When I would press a key again, it would
come back out of it.
This particular behavior could be related to the power settings in
your BIOS.
I didn't have the problem long. Here are the only things I changed
before it disappeared completely:
- In MCC, I shut off the apmd (Advanced Power Managment Daemon)
> (I have since re-enabled it without problems)
- switched from the GPL'd nv X11 drivers to proprietary nvidia ones
- changed BIOS setting for USB support in DOS to enabled
> (this was for my mouse, which was jumping all over)
In case it helps, my hardware is as follows:
ECS K7S5A Motherboard w/ onboard LAN and sound
AOpen Geforce 4 Ti 4200
Realtek 8139 LAN
SB Live value (emu101k)
AOpen / Logitech S48a PS2 mouse
Good luck,
-Mark Piper
