[plug] Weird and I don't know Mandrake 9

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.fdns.net
Mon Nov 25 14:56:14 WST 2002


On Monday 25 November 2002 02:38 pm, Harry McNally wrote:
> I've got a friend with a Mandrake 9.0 install that he is setting up as a
> server. He did a "Server Install". The problem he is seeing is that the
> system seems to crash when the screen goes into screen save! Can anyone
> give some tips of possible causes or where to start looking ?

Probably dodgy ACPI on the mobo. Try disabling ACPI and running with APM. If 
it's any comfort, Debian would aolmost certainly behave in a similar manner 
(modulo some kernel patches).

Cheers; Leon



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