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Old 02-21-2008, 11:29 AM
Nuno J. Silva (aka NJSG)
 
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Default Re: Power Saving under Gentoo

A 16-05-2006 15:35, Anton Ertl escreveu:
> "Nuno J. Silva (aka NJSG)" <nunojsg@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>When I power it down, it stays powered on, as if the motherboard was not
>>able to power off the computer (it writes a line saying "Power off" (or
>>"Power down?")). When I had Fedora Core installed, this didn't happen -
>>the computer was powered off automatically.

>
>
> My experience is that LILO systems stay on and Grub systems power off
> (that's the only reason why I use Grub). I have no idea why.
>


I'm using GRUB.
As I didn't find /proc/acpi/info, I'll reconfigure and recompile Linux.

>
>>I'm also
>>not able to use the display power saving settings: setting a delay to
>>activate Standby and Suspend does not work (the display continues
>>showing a black screen and the led stills green).

>
>
> This worked for me with earlier X servers, but not with more recent
> ones (IIRC since XFree 4). No idea how to fix it.
>
> - anton


I changed my xorg.conf as suggested in
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Automat...f_your_monitor
and it's now working.

(I can't find /proc/acpi/info (I'm sure I've checked ACPI during
menuconfig... but I'll double check), but it worked.)

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Nuno J. Silva (aka NJSG)
Lisbon, Portugal
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