On 2005.03.25 18:32, "Scott Haneda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on 3/24/05 11:09 PM, Beth Rosengard at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On 3/24/05 10:42 PM, "Scott Haneda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> It is truly odd, I agree, perhaps it has something to do with where the >>> mouse is plugged into. I know every morning I boot up, check email, shower, >>> come back to the computer and just tap the mouse to wake it up. >> >> I suspect the computer isn't truly asleep in that case. What are your sleep >> settings in Energy Saver? You have two options there: put the computer to >> sleep and put the display to sleep. When the display sleeps, a mouse >> movement will rouse it; but when the computer itself sleeps, it takes >> tapping a key to wake it up. >> >> If you've set your computer to sleep after one hour and the display to sleep >> after 10 minutes and it only takes you a half hour to shower, then the >> computer wasn't asleep, even though the display was (and the computer >> *appeared* to be). > > Energy saver is messed up on OS X. This is getting OT so I will try to keep > it short. I can chose sleep from the menu, I hear the fans stop, I hear the > drives spin down, the machine is asleep, I can not ssh into the machine, I > can not ping the machine, it is asleep. I can wake it from this with a > click of the mouse button. I can also let Energy Saver do its thing, which > is set to display sleep in one minute and computer sleep in 15. Again, a > mouse click will wake it. It really just depends on the computer, some > people have tons of Energy Saver issues, mostly laptops, the Dual G5's have > some fan turn on issues. Either way, a keyboard or mouse click will do it > for me, at least on this machine. I have a 750GHz G4 running MacOS X.3.3 set for the computer to go to sleep if inactive after 2 hours. I always wake it my using mouse movement. The screensaver is set to come on after one hour unless I set it using active corner. I have done this for several years ever since starting to use MacOS X. Regards D�nes -- D�nes Bogs�nyi 133 Osburn Drive MACGREGOR ACT 2615 Australia Tel: +612 6254 3636 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: www.homepage.mac.com/denesbogsanyi -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
