Re: SuperMicro P6SBS system board and Power Management

doctor@fruitbat.org
Fri, 9 Oct 1998 14:02:41 -0700 (PDT)

Harvey Fishman stated ...
>
> I have a SuperMicro P6SBS system board (the version that uses the same PWB
> as the P6DBS, but leaves the holes for things associated with the second
> processor unstuffed) with the latest BIOS upgrade. I have a problem that I
> cannot find settings for the Power Management CMOS configuration such that
> the card will time out the video using the VESA mechanism and then allow
> recovery with the keyboard. Once I time out, the only way to recover seems
> to be to use the reset switch or cycle power. The display adapter is a
> Matrox Productiva G100.

Hi Harvey,
I have the P6DGE (only 1 PII at the moment). Are you refering to
blanking the Console screens or from X? In either case, here's what I
have set:
In the BIOS:
Power Management:
ACPI Awars OS : NO
Power Management/APM : Enabled
Power Button : On/Off
Green PC Monitor Power State : Suspend
Video Power Down Mode : Suspend
Hard Disk Down Mode : Suspend
Hard Disk Timeout : Disable
Power Saving Type : Sleep
Standby/Suspend Timer Unit : 4 min
Standby Timeout : Disable
Suspend Timeout : Disable
Slow Clock Ratio : 50-62.6%
Display Activity : Ignore
Device 6 : Ignore
Device 7 : Ignore
Device 8 : Ignore
Device 5 : Ignore
Device 0 : Ignore
Device 1 : Ignore
Device 2 : Ignore
Device 3 : Ignore
LAN Wake-up : Disable

In the Kernel I do not have *any* APM features enabled. My
understanding is that these features are really only for laptops (ie:
machines with a battery for their power-supply).

In the system startup (/etc/rc.d./rc.M) I have the following line:
/bin/setterm -blank 20 -powersave on

In my .xinitrc file I have the following lines:
# enable DPMS
xset +dpms
xset dpms 1200 0 0

> This machine runs NT most of the time, but is dual bootable to Linux. I
> have no problems with NT; hit the keyboard or mouse and it comes right
> back. But Linux just seems to take a long walk on a short pier...

Try the above. I run NT on my system (when my job demands it, that is)
and both OS's have no trouble with reviving from sleeping.

> Does anyone know how to set this up? Having the video blank IS important
> to me. But it would be nice to be able to recover. ;-) Thanks.
>
> Harvey

-- 
Peter A. Castro (doctor@fruitbat.org) or (pcastro@us.oracle.com)


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