keep my laptop awake

[Davy]

hi everyone!!!

i've got elive 0.6 (debian etch with 2.6.15 kernel) on my toshiba celeron m laptop.

this morning i did a apt-get dist-upgrade because i noticed that elive 0.6 had been released.

before the dist-upgrade suspend didn't work... which was fine, i don't use it anyways.

now, my laptop keeps trying to sleep, but it doesn't work completely. which means that laptop locks up after 10 or 20 minutes of disuse when it tries to suspend and i have to cold reboot it everytime to begin using it again.

how do it stop it from happening? how do i make my laptop stay awake all the time?

thanks

[happybunny]

coffee

[Davy]

coffee

actually... wouldn't java be better?

[happybunny]

what about checking xset for power options and screen savers

is acpi installed/loaded? i think cat /proc/acpi? something

[Davy]

acpi is installed.

i tried

xset dpms force off

let's see if my laptop stays awake now.

[Davy]

grrr.... nope

i caught my laptop frozen after it tried to sleep again.

... had to force a hard reboot

ps acpi is installed and seems to be trying to work

[bwkaz]

If you shut down acpid, does that prevent it from going to sleep? Is there another daemon running whose name sounds like it might be related to power management?

There's probably a way to turn off suspending in the kernel, but I'm not quite sure what it would be. Disabling power management entirely would also disable powering off the machine when you shut down, so that's not good. Hmm...

[eskaypey]

http://xkcd.com/c196.html

[Davy]

If you shut down acpid, does that prevent it from going to sleep? Is there another daemon running whose name sounds like it might be related to power management?...

shutting down acpid has no effect

the only acpi related daemon is acpi-support. i tried shutting that one down too... my laptop still keeps suspending itself.

[Exodus2001]

I was getting accused of having acpi support built into the kernel in GParted LiveCD all the time. The thing is I never released a version with acpi. I believe the problem lies with the bios and recent kernel releases. See if there is an option to turn off the "sleep" in bios itself.

why not use the -s option in xset?

xset s off

Also turn off the blanking in bash.

setterm -blank

I guess you could try these three things...