From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261628AbVBWW75 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:59:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261665AbVBWW6y (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:58:54 -0500 Received: from jagor.srce.hr ([161.53.2.130]:45300 "EHLO jagor.srce.hr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261628AbVBWW4m (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:56:42 -0500 Message-ID: <421D0A21.5000401@spymac.com> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:56:33 +0100 From: zhilla User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Well, powersaving weirdness. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Not the most clever subject, I agree :) hell, i'm not sure if this is a KERNEL bug. but it definitely is an annoyance, so... distro is slackware 10. i have a small script i run every time i connect to the internet (and i connect via dial-up when ) this is one command in the script: /usr/sbin/ntpdate zg1.ntp.carnet.hr well, as my bios battery is a bit weak, hardware clock resets to its defaults when computer is powerless for few minutes. ok, i fire it up, time is set to something like ie 0:01:15 1/1/2003, connect to the net, it sets the time ie. 23:46:23 23/02/2005... and its monitor off! puff, powersaving (is that in acpi? apm?) suddenly decides that computer is left untouched for more 2-3 years now and initiates powersaving mode. ok, not a big problem, but somehow i think it IS a easily fixable small kernel bug... if i'm wrong, please direct me to the right place to report this? thanks.