[TriLUG] Mandrake Laptop

[Chris Knowles]

OK, I figured some of it out.

Apparently my power supply has gone south.  (It's taking a dirt nap,
pushing up daisies, it's run up the curtain and joined the choir
invisible)

Also, the quick suspend (1 minute of idle time) was due to the bios on
the laptop.  (It NEVER went into suspend under RedHat.)

However, this doesn't answer the question of why I don't have that
configuration option that Jon was talking about.  

So, to sum up... Power supply dead, so I'm not on AC... and BIOS level
suspend is working, when it never had under RedHat.  Still have an
apparently missing menu though...

CJK

On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 10:51, Chris Knowles wrote:
> Fourth Icon from the left is for Nautilus.  I've been through all the
> beasties that appear to be for configuration and nothing jumped out at
> me with names like Power...
> 
> I'm using Gnome, no KDE due to disk constraints.  
> 
> The Mandrake control center doesn't appear to have any such entry for
> power control.  
> 
> Sorry to be so difficult.
> 
> CJK
> 
> On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 10:37, Jon Carnes wrote:
> > On your tool bar, click on the 4th icon from the left (it looks like a 
> > monitor with green slime oozing down the left side of it...).  This is the 
> > "Control Center".  You'll find a lot of configure power contained within.
> > 
> > I believe there are two items you want to look at:
> >    Power Control / Energy - controls monitor Standby, Suspend, and Power off
> >    LookNFeel / Screensaver - controls when it kicks in and what SS it uses.
> > 
> > Have fun with the Screen Savers; there are some fun ones in there.
> > 
> > Jon
> > 
> > On Saturday 01 June 2002 09:56 am, Chris Knowles wrote:
> > > OK, I've just installed Mandrake 8.2 on my laptop.  It's pretty slick.
> > > (The installer was great, other than problems finding my sound card...)
> > >
> > > Just one question.  After a few (haven't used the stopwatch yet)
> > > minutes, it suspends, whether it's on power or not.  I can't find apm,
> > > which is what I'm used to managing these things, anywhere on this
> > > system.
> > >
> > > So where do I go to configure how long it waits?
> > >
> > > CJK
> > >
> > >
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