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 > > <snip sig stuff> -- Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060522/a25677e2/attachment-0004.sig>