I have an old Power Mac G4 400 I'm trying to install Debian 4.0 Etch on (to run a particular program that's ported for this Release).I've twice burned iso CD's for it, but on holding down the C on the G4 I get no more than a blank screen.(no prompt, no installation). Battery still at 4 volts, hours of googling, I have found no information on what is causing this. Anybody out there have an answer for this fellow cyber-sufferer?
I use Squeeze with Xfce. My problem is that recently (after the xfce updates) the xfce power manager doesnt react to the power button - it is set to suspend. I dont have gnome-power manager or anything like it running. If i reboot the computer, the power button will work but if i suspend and resume, it doesnt work again. The computer is built on an Asus M3N78-VM mobo (2GB RAM/Athlon3200+ single core).
So I think I did something stupid here, was following the instructions on the debian howtos to installing nvidia, and after I did apt-get install nvidia-xconfig my power went out and when I went to restart my computer, whenever I tried to startx it gave me some cannot connect to X session, so I left it over night and went to bed, this morning it took a long time to start, longer than usual. and my browser stuff in my fluxbox was reset(book marks and favorites).
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit and I purchased a new ALFA AWUS036H wireless card. I would like to know if this "1Watt" wireless card is configured for full power. iwlist wlan0 txpower results:
wlan0 unknown transmit-power information. Current Tx-Power=27 dBm (501 mW). It appears to me that I should be able to increase the power. "iwpriv wlan0 highpower 1" does not work. Do I need to patch the new default driver that comes with Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit with the aircrack one following these directions:[URL]...? Monitor mode and a injection tests seem to work fine with the driver I have installed.
I'm looking for any power monitoring devices for Linux to allow monitoring power quality, voltage changes, and outages. This would be for North American three phase power system. I want to have this data fed live to my own program. It should be something much better than just jury-rigging a circuit to fee the power waveform into 2 or 3 audio cards.
I had unplugged my PC last night as sometimes there's storms at night this morning I plugged in PC and the power light is blinking and the PC wont come on at all tried different power cord, same result
PC is a AMD athlon64 3300+ 2.4ghz SiS graphics
probably the power-supply or what?
If it is the power supply, how do I find new one as I've never had to replace anything on it or any other PC?
Also, I really need access to the hard drive but it's a weird hard drive and was wondering if I could put that hard drive in my K7 PC, which already has 2 drives in it can a pc have 3 drives? do I have to add/have another ribbon cable for 3rd drive?
I am struggling to get Debian 8 stable to boot on an apple powermac g5. I installed using guided partitioning, and chose the all on one partition scheme. I am able to select the Debian hard disk from the boot drive selector from mac. I get to the first stage bootstrap, press L for Linux, and then it simply redirects me back to the drive selection. However, after I'm redirected the colors are messed up.
I was in the middle of upgrading from lenny to squeeze via ssh, when someone who was logged in as a user unknowingly rebooted the machine because it was lagging.
I recently upgraded to Jessie and am using the LXDE desktop. I like using the keyboard power button to shutdown the system but it does not work. I looked at /etc/acpi and everything appears okay to my untrained eyes, but there is obviously something not working correctly. Do I need to edit some config file or install some code in order to use the power button for shutdown ? When I look at Services Settings I see that acpid power management is selected.
When installing squeeze from either a dvd or cd (i've burned loads to see if it was the problem) my computer goes through the installation, until the dreaded step of "selecting and installing software" where the installation stops, and my computer turns itself off because of a kill signal sent to everything. I've tried booting with fb=false, and for some reason acpi=off, and neither of them solved the problem (acpi=off caused my laptop to turn off unexpectedly earlier) (HP 6735s, AMD64 using Turion X2, 4GB Ram)
I have running Debian on a QNAP device and it like's run well. But todat I saw that the default cron job seems a little bit strange [ -x /.sr/.ib/.hp5/.axlifetime ] && [ -d /.ar/.ib/.hp5 ] && find /.ar/.ib/.hp5/.-type f -cmin +$(/.sr/.ib/.hp5/.axlifetime) “delete
I think is sould be [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -delete
My ASUS Wl500g Premium v1 (with NSLU Linux) now working not only as router, but SSH/OpenVPN-client.Now I want mini-server on Debian for1. Torrent-client;2. Samba-server;3. vsftpd/OpenSSH/OpenVPN-servers.I've already chosen this:Intel "D525MW" (Atom D525-1.80Ghz, iNM10, 2xDDR3 SO-DIMM, SATA II, D-Sub, SB, 1Gbit LAN, USB2.0, mini-ITX)2 * SO-DIMM 2Gb DDR3 SDRAM SEC (PC8500, 1066Mhz, CL7) original2 * 1000Gb Hitachi "Deskstar 7K1000.C HDS721010CLA332" (SATA II)and I'm searching for a case (that can take on board 2 HDD 3.5) and powerfull RAID-controller.
I have recently switched to Debian Sid and GNOME 3 on my laptop after previously using Linux Mint and Cinnamon. On my old setup I could suspend the laptop for some time (ie. overnight) and it would not die. However, with my current setup, even leaving it a few hours on suspend can be enough to make the battery die completely.I am using lightdm and systemd.
I am having a weird problem where if I don't touch the mouse or keyboard after logging on, the power manager settings are being ignored. I disabled turning off the display and screen saver from the Gnome utilities, but after about 20 minutes my screen blanks and my wireless network connection gets disconnected. This is on an HTPC, so I'm usually not near the mouse or keyboard, and unfortunately button presses from the remote control don't count. Media players like MPlayer will prevent the screen from blanking, but if I'm listening to music (where the music is served over the network from another computer), this means that the screen will go blank and the music playback will freeze as the network connection is lost. If I touch the keyboard just after booting it doesn't blank the screen or disconnect my wireless, but when I forget it's very disruptive.
I am running Debian Testing (Squeeze) with a Gnome desktop environment. I'm using gdm3 to log in, but I have it set up to automatically log me on. (I use gdm on my desktop, also with Squeeze, with it configured to show login screen instead of automatically logging me on and it still displays that behavior) I have attempted the following to resolve this issue to no avail:
Disable DPMS for my screen and monitor in /etc/X11/Xorg.conf Set all the timeouts for blanking, power down, etc. to 0 in /etc/X11/Xorg.conf Flat out disabling the DPMS extension. (so it's still blanking, even if it's not actually turning on power saving mode) Putting "xset s off" in ~/.xinitrc Disabling powersave with setterm in ~/.xinitrc Removing gnome-screensaver and gnome-power-manager from the startup items.
Edit: Actually, the wireless issue seems to not be related. It disconnected again, and after some searching with the error message I saw in dmesg, it looks like others have been having the same issue. It seems to have been coincidental that it was acting up when I was testing the screen blanking issue, and hasn't given me as much trouble lately, so it seemed like it was correlated.
I recently converted a Toshiba Satellite A75 notebook with a broken screen into a minecraft server that me and my friends will be using at UAB. It's currently running the latest version of Debian in text-mode with a few shell scripts that backup files and update a webpage at specified times.
The server runs fantastic ( though it's currently on my home network so no one can join it unless they are on LAN ) but there is a minor problem. I took a look at the backups from last night and it seems the server shut down around 10:00 in the morning because the laptop went into sleep/hibernate mode or something like that. I'm not sure what's causing this exactly but I think it's some setting in gnome-power-manager, but I can't run it in text mode.
On the last release, I had this app installed where I could pick my power profile. I could use power conservatively, and performance would suffer a bit, but longer batt life,or I could have it automatically detect, or I could have the apps use all the power they want and then some. I'm looking to reinstall that app. What was the name of it?I can't remember, and so far, can't find.
I have recently upgraded the hardware of my zenbook from i5 to i7. Unfortunately the battery discharges very fast (30 min instead 3 h with i5) because the system turns all time at maximum speed (I guess).
Is there any power management update for Debian Jessie8.3 on i7 processors?
I'm wondering what my alternatives are when I lose power to the external hard drive where I have Debian installed. I realize that the best answer may be a battery backup UPS for the external hard drive. It seems that I recall that when a similar scenario happened on my SunOS Sparc workstation, I would simply hit [Stop-A] and then type in the "sync" command. I now have a laptop and am running Debian off of an external harddrive that has its own power supply. When I lose power, my laptop obviously continues to keep running but my session is essentially and understandably hosed because the main filesystem is not accessible. Gnome desktop goes away and I am thrown to the main console login. When power resumes, I cannot login to attempt a remount or anything. When I hit [ctrl-alt-del] thinking that that is less forceful than just holding down the main power on the laptop, I get cannot execute "/sbin/shutdown". Is there a [STOP-A] sync equilavent or some way or keyboard sequence to get to GRUB to issue a reboot command?
I made a basic installation of Debian on my Power Mac G4. It worked well, but now, when I start up, after introducing my password, I have something like this
myname@debian:~$
What shall I do now? I hoped for a graphical interface...
According to Phoronix [URL]... aspm&num=1 (which seems to only test Ubuntu kernels) the problems should affect all users of the affected kernels, including Debian's, but that article provides a fix. I don't remember anyone here mentioning lower battery life and increased heat on their mobile platforms, though.
I have a new Thinkpad X1 Carbon (3rd) and i am very pleased with this machine so far.
Linux support is very good and i only have a few issues remaining.
I am running Debian Jessie and tried this with 2 kernels:
linux-3.16.7-ckt11-1 linux-4.0.4 (vanilla)
Main Problem at the time is really cannot get the power button to work.
thinkpad_acpi module is loaded.
I am not very familiar what possibilities are available to catch input devices. Some search in the internet brought me to the following commands. I tried evtest with no result
Code: Select allroot@x1carbon:~# evtest /dev/input/event3 Input driver version is 1.0.1 Input device ID: bus 0x19 vendor 0x0 product 0x1 version 0x0 Input device name: "Power Button" Supported events: Â Event type 0 (EV_SYN) Â Event type 1 (EV_KEY) Â Â Event code 116 (KEY_POWER) Properties: Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
I tried acpi_listen also with no result
What else could i try? All other keys like lid event and all fn keys work flawlessly.
Just learned that the event needs about 1 second of pressing time to trigger
I dual-boot Jessie with Windows 10, and I recently guessed that the 'fast boot' (hibernate on shutdown) feature of Windows doesn't properly shut down the RTL8188EU NIC plugged into my PC. So when I boot into Debian, it isn't properly recognised by the driver and I have to completely shut down the PC to make it work.
Is there a way to automatically cut the power to the wireless NIC on startup and then reenable it so I don't have to do this?
I have an Asus EEE Box EB1012 running Debian Jessie (headless with no GUI installed).
I'm trying to get the power button on the front of the machine to put the computer in suspend.
If I run pm-suspend from the command line, it suspends correctly and also recovers correctly by pressing the hardware power button.
Originally, pressing the power button (while running) would shut the computer down.
The acpi power button event script was set to run the command "/sbin/shutdown -h -P now".
I changed it to "/usr/sbin/pm-suspend", and restarted the acpi service/rebooted the computer (I tried both), but the power button still cause the computer to shut down.
I also tried setting no action (empty string) for the power button event, but still the power button caused shutdown.
Is the acpi system getting bypassed somehow? Is there another system to configure instead?
I've recently changed to Debian from Windows, it's a really great adventure so far, but I have one problem. So as I see you can set your monitor into "Blank Page" after 10 or any minutes to save power, like in Windows. 10 minutes passes, without any movement my monitor's led turns into orange and the monitor turns off, that's great, that's what i want.
But after a few seconds the led turns green (like when it's on), and it brings up a little box : "Power Saving Mode" (just like it did after 10 minutes), and it turns off, and then stars again from the beginning . And this goes on repeatedly until a move my mouse to get back from "Blank page" state. (It's like the monitor tries going into power saving mode, but it gets always a little bit of power, to show that text box, and start all over.) So what can I do? I use debian 8.0 "jessie", and my monitor is a LG L1750S(with Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT).
Fresh new installation of squeeze on an MSI Wind U100 netbook.Everything works fine, except resuming from hibernate when on battery power. The netbook starts loading the hibernate info after grub booting, then the screen goes blank and the netbook reboots.The unusual thing is that resuming from hibernate works when on AC power.Could not find anything interesting in /var/log/messages
I have made a server using a bananapi. The bananapi is an embedded linux mini PC, using an allwinner A20 SOC. This server boots and runs from an uSD card, and logs data from sensors to an attached 1TB hard drive. This works OK, but the hard drive consumes a lot of power (about 2.5W), this essentially doubles the amount of power needed. I am planning to power this setup from an accu, therefore I would like to keep power consumption as low as possible.
I am planning to let the application log to the uSD card. After a while the uSD card is almost full. At that moment I can wake up the HD, move the data to the HD, delete the data from the uSD card, set the HD to sleep, and wait until the uSD card is full again. Is there some clever way to do this? I can do this with basic shell scripting, but then I get all kind of issues like open files that are copied to the HD while they are still being filled by the logging application. This would mean they end up on the HD incomplete.
I'm using debian testing on my Asus UX305. When my laptop is connected to power, the power notification still shows "discharging". And The battery part of the laptop feels unusually hot.
while connected to power, "acpi -b" gives me this information: Battery 0: Discharging, 98%, discharging at zero rate - will never fully discharge.
This problem was reported by some ubuntu users too: [URL] ....
I am currently having issues with system freeze when unmounting portable hard drives. This happens almost every single time. Normal USB sticks are fine and do not produce the freeze. I am using kernel 3.0.0-rc6, however the issue also persists when switching back to 2.6.39. This is the error message i get when freeze occurs, reverting to terminal output:
