Re: 2.6.1: why auto power-off while on batteries?

[Len Brown]

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 19:32, Eric Altendorf wrote:
> Since I've upgraded my Fedora 1 distro to 2.6.1+swsusp, I've noticed 
> that while on battery power (and only then), the laptop will auto 
> poweroff after about 5 minutes of inactivity.  This does not appear 
> to be a user-level acpid/whatever clean shutdown; the power is just 
> cut without so much as a disk sync.  Of course there are no entries 
> in /var/log/messages.
> 
> Any ideas anyone?

check dmesg to be sure that APM is disabled, and that ACPI is enabled.

cheers,
-Len

ps. acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is a good place for issues such as
this.

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