acpi and the str/s3 state

[Gregory Nowak]

Thanks Kerry. I do have an rtl8139-based card in this box, didn't know they cause apm problems. As I mentioned, the power supply is 300W. The board manual mentions that the power supply needs to provide at least 720 mA power, but since my grades weren't that grate in my basic electronics classes, I don't know how to calculate that (grin). Thanks again for your response.
Greg


On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 05:30:06PM +0800, Kerry Hoath wrote:
> It is not uncommon for t hese features not to work
> as advertized. If the supply does not provide the required standby current
> or the machine does not like the keyboard, or you don't set the wake up
> events properly in the bios
> or the black cat didn't walk under the neighbour's ladder;
> your machine might not wake up.
> I have seen power management both apm and acpi work sometimes but it seems to be an
> area of pc design that still exhibits flakiness.
> Aparently me and xp support power management better; but I've never had
> a great deal of luck with it under linux but I've never tried hard either.
> I have found that if you have some apm in the kernel and rtl8139 network cards; the card
> goes to sleep on you and crashes the box.
> For that reason apm gets turned off on any of my servers.
> If people request apm or ACPI I enable it but say that their milage
> may vary.
> 
> Check your wake-up options; other than that I have no idea.
> Monitors use the most power so I usually set them to turn off after inactivity; the boxes stay
> running. Keeps the temperature of the box more constant anyway.
> 
> Regards, Kerry.