[janoble]

My current primary machine uses ACPI rather than APM. The BIOS does not provide for disabling ACPI, like I used to do on my previous machine. Since I was using Linux as a server for years on a previous machine, I don't want it to shut down. When I tried running Linux on the current machine, after about an hour it goes into some state where power-off is the only option to get it's attention. I built ACPI into the kernel. The proper directory was dynamically created, but having no events nothing changed. Looking through the Linux document on ACPI all I could find was a trivial event file. What I need is a file or a set of event files that essentially say, "no matter what the event, DO NOT shut the system down." I've asked the Omaha Linux Users Group (OLUG) members on a couple of occasions and even gone to Linux Installfests, but no one seems to have experience on ACPI configuration.

Windows 98SE was running on this system fine, and now Windows XP Pro is running fine, but regrettably, I've had to abandon the awesome server aspect provided by Linux. Does anyone know how to configure Linux to not shut the system done under ACPI?

THANKS
-joe-

[liviu]

This site has a lot of interesting links for your problem:

http://ftp.sun.ac.za/ftp/mirrorsites...cpi/sleep.html

HTH, liviu

[janoble]

liviu,

I checked it out and your right. They may indeed answer the problems I'v been having. Now if my 160GB hard drive is big enough to support Windows XP and anything else, I should be able to install Linux again. The last time I installed Linux was RH8.0, but I have the disks for RH9.0, both of which are OBE.

THANKS, your the first to give me any help on ACPI!!!!
-joe-

[andmalc]

You should verify that ACPI is causing this by disabling it at boot with the kernel parameter - either (can't remember) noacpi or acpi=off. I wonder, since it sounds like you don't really need any power management why you compiled your kernel with ACPI support at all?

Anyway, your computer wouldn't be going into suspend or standby just because you have kernel support - you'd also need an application level program to tell it to do so. This makes me think you do have a BIOS setting somwhere enabling suspend or standby.