Re: problems setting up power saving

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

green on 26/10/09 03:29, wrote:
> Adam Hardy wrote at 2009-10-23 08:45 -0600:
> > There is a continuous clicking from the harddrives - once every 10 to 15
> > seconds.
>
> > Lastly, are these errors in the boot log anything relevant to the issue?
>
> > [    5.730558] Probing IDE interface ide1...
> > [    5.770508] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
> > [    5.770508] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
> > [    5.770508] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 1
> > [    5.770508] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 2
> > [    5.770508] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 3
> > [    5.770508] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 4
> > [    5.770508] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 5
> > [    5.770508] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 6
> > [    5.770508] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 7
> > [    5.770508] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
> > [    5.770508] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
> > [    5.770508] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 4
>
> Perhaps that hard drive is dying.  I recommend backing up any important data 
> and checking the drive with the smartmontools package.
Hi Green

thanks for taking an interest - I re-installed lenny from scratch and these 
error messages don't appear any more. Plus the clicking has gone. The brute 
force solution!

My only problem now is with the video signal powering down after 10 mins. I 
can't find the configuration setting anywhere and searching the internet has so 
far only turned up people in the same situation - it's not the BIOS, it's not X 
(it happens on the command line too), and I can't see any settings in /etc that 
might regulate it.


Rgds
Adam