Re: imac shuts down alone
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 09:45 +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > I have an Imac running debian sarge 2.4.18.
> > Sometimes, when we don't use it for a moment, it shuts down completely
> > without any warning.
> >
> > There is no power management daemon running on this machine.
>
> Might be a problem with the X server on this machine - if the screen saver
> kicks in and starts running code that hangs up your X server, the machine
> might power down after a while (the PMU getting confused because the
> processor isn't handling its interrupts anymore). Try disabling
> xscreensaver (or just those screensaver modules that use GL) to test this.
>
> Caveat: I've not noticed this behavior on PowerPC but ix86, and on that
> architecture, the machine just hangs hard instead of powering down. Might
> be completely unrelated (and hasn't happened to me in a while now).
>
I dido this. Try removing xscreensaver and related screensavers. You
can also try daenzers xfree opposed to the default xfree.
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