Gee... havnt seen any posts in the last 24 hours.... heres an update... Laptop worked fine all day uptime was about 14 hours. Played mp3's, slept, woke, slept several times and woke fine. Last night I played some mp3's and after a couple songs it slept, and crashed... around 2am. Im working on another system, and want to keep it as lean as possible. Right now its got about 150 megs used, and I dont have X working yet. Ive installed Ive installed about 5 packages, but tragically I cannot find my notes right now...
Jamie On Saturday 26 January 2002 11:09, you wrote: > I tried running ampd from the console... it seems ok, and I was able to zzz > my machine and wake it. Its still continueing to lock up. It happend at > 8:30:08, and 1:30:05, and around 3:30 (but it blanked just before > locking...) I was thinking of looking at my crontab... > I have also noticed some errors: > I get disk errors when waking (it takes a while for the disk to spin up, > and there are some read errors (but it does say "(corrrected)"). and I also > got an error on ne1 something about a DMA timeout or something... So, Im > unsure what the cause is since the hardware has proven to be a bit flaky > (good for pie crust, bad for machinery). > > Jamie > > On Saturday 26 January 2002 00:13, you wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 10:35:16PM -0800, Linux Rocks ! wrote: > > > > Have you enabled apmd? Have you tried using 'zzz' to suspend the > > > > machine? > > > > > > no to the zzz, ill have to try that. I dont know if apmd is enabled > > > grepping ps aux doesnt show any apm. Im guessing that the apm features > > > is in the laptops firmware. tragically it works sometimes but not other > > > times... > > > > set 'apmd_flags=""' in /etc/rc.conf to enable apmd. When it's on, the OS > > will have a better chance of knowing when the machine wants to suspend. > > > > > I was thinking of using ftp, or NFS, however im unsure how happy nfs > > > between BSD and linux will do.. > > > > I've heard mixed reports (mostly works well, but a few kinks here and > > there).
