On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 13:41 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:

Hi,

I have CentOS 4.3 installed on my Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D laptop (Pentium IV 2.4 GHz CPU). Everything runs just fine, but I have one problem. When I leave the machine unattended for something like an hour or two, my desktop has "frozen". Unable to recovery anything, even [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Backspace] refuses to quit X, so I have to hard-reboot by pressing PowerOn/Off for 10 seconds.

First thing I did after install, I deactivated the XScreensaver because it kept asking me for a password everytime I stopped typing for 5 minutes.

This should be OK for you to activate when your other problem is solved. You can easily configure this to not ask for a password. I have two logins on one of my nodes. One requires password, the other does not.

Top menu bar: Application -> Preferences -> Screensaver

Make sure "Lock Screen" check box is *unchecked*.

There must be some other power-saving daemon there that makes the mess, but I don't know much about these. I've heard somewhere that ACPI can cause system crashes... but I don't know where to even start to look.

As far as I reckon, I have an ACPI daemon running, a thing called 'irqbalance' (that produces a nice red 'FAILED' on every shutdown) and also lm_sensors.

Any suggestions?

Can't help with the other problems. But I've seen guys post who seem knowledgeable. Hopefully, they get back to you soon.

Niki Kovacs

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