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Re: Power Management Issues



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> About a week ago I began observing the following behavior in my laptop:
>
> -After placing the latptop on the coffee table and standing up, my kne
> brushed the corner causing an ESD
> -Since then, when I leave the laptop idle for more than two hours, the
> monitor and HDD shut off (as specified in my BIOS settings) but will not
> wake again (before I reflashed my BIOS it seemed that this was happening
> with a shorter idel period)
>
> -This is what I have tried so far:
>   -re-flashed the BIOS with latest version from Toshiba
>   -adjusted the power management settings from the BIOS
>   -left the computer idle for varying periods of time with basically the
> same result (after 2 hours, no wakeup)
>   -have experimented with leaving the battery in place and also with
> removing it after fully charged, leaving the machine to run on AC power
> alone (no this did not help)
>   -tried modyifying the settings in xscreensaver-demo (to no effect)
>   -tried killing the xscreensaver daemon before I went to sleep (again, no
> effect)
> -The real kicker: this problem does not occur under Windows XP.  I have
> already tried leaving the machine running overnight under WinXP (instead of
> Debian) and it always wakes up properly, regardless of how long the machine
> has bee idle.
> -This behavior is also not creating any log files that I am able to find.
>
> Machine Specs:
> Toshiba Satellite 2805-S401
> PIII-700MHz
> 256 MB RAM
> S3 Savage-IX/MV 8MB video
> 20 GB HDD
> internal floppy and CD-ROM/DVD-ROM
> Debian Woody 3.0r1 (stock bf2.4 kernel)
>
> I am at a loss to what the source of the problem could be.   I would
> appreciate any help.
>
> -Roberto Sanchez
>
>
>
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