[K12OSN] New K12LTSP 5.0.0 server won't wake up

[Ray Garza]

On Monday 16 October 2006 14:22, Carl Keil wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I just installed 5.0.0 on a new server.  This is the first PC I've ever
> built from scratch.  MSI Mobo, Dual Core 805 Proc, Gig of Ram, 120Gig
> ATA drive.  I mention this because my problem might be in the BIOS which
> I've never had to set up from scratch before.  The server is really
> working great.  I can't quite pin it down, but the combo of this faster
> server and 5.0 is really great (thanks Eric).  The first client I tried
> (an old GX110) booted up beautifully with no tweaks to lts.conf!!!
>
> Anyway, one of the few problems I'm having is that when I'm logged into
> the server console as root, the server eventually goes to sleep.
> Actually it's just the console, the monitor light actually stays green
> (and the monitor is hot) but all the button clicking and keyboard
> tapping and mouse moving in the world won't "wake it up."  I have to go
> in via ssh from another box and do a "shutdown -r now" to regain console
> access.
>
> I've tried disabling (and other settings) of power management in the
> BIOS.  I've tried turning "go to sleep" to "never" in the Gnome power
> management control panel.  I don't really know whether this is a BIOS
> thing or Linux thing or both.  Does anyone have any suggestions for how
> to fix this?  I guess it won't be much of an issue once the server is up
> and running (it runs the clients great in this mode and I won't stay
> logged in as root for very long) but while I'm still setting up the
> server it's a drag, and I don't want to have to reboot every time I need
> console access in the future.
>
> Thanks everybody.
>
> ck
>
Carl, Did you ever find a solution for this problem?

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