[TriLUG] Mandrake Laptop

[Jon Carnes]

Go to Run Command and type in: kcontrol
I don't know if its supported under Gnome, but I've had good luck before.

As to the Power supply, I think it's just pining for the Forjd's....  These 
Norwegian Blue power supplys are quite sentimental!

Good Luck - Jon

On Saturday 01 June 2002 01:31 pm, Chris Knowles wrote:
> 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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