RH 8.0 X server reconfig problem...

[Andrew Mathews]

tom wrote:
> Andrew Mathews <andrew_mathews at linux-works.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Now back to the issue, there's a possibility there's a BIOS 
>>setting that can be causing these lockups too. Have you checked for 
>>any of these Tom?
> 
> 
> I've gone back to the BIOS, and looked again.  
> Under Power Management, this option is Highlighted as OFF.
> 
> Since the kernel turns apmd on, can I add an 
> append statement to lilo and have it read something like
> 
>  append="apm=off"
> 
> would that turn it off?
> 
<snip>

Not that I'm aware of. Reason being is that apmd is a service and lilo 
"appends" deal strictly with options and configuration of kernels and 
locations, not the actual OS and it's internal functions and system 
services. Out of curiosity, do you have anything in your rc.local file 
that's calling something towards the end of the boot sequence do you? A 
firewall script, a daemon starting, sshd, ipchains/iptables, anything 
customized without a second thought from habit? I'm still not sure it's 
apmd unless it's possessed. (Halloween's coming ya know)<g> It just 
doesn't do things like that unless some Sleep/Hibernate settings are 
really fubar. Study the logs closely, noting the corresponding times, 
the answer may be there. Kill off every system service possible to see 
where it stops the problem. (it may be a badly behaving combination too)
Also does it do the same thing at runlevel 1?
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