Hibernation woes.

[Fintan]

For a friend I am trying to install feisty on a maxdata performance 110T laptop with 1ghz cpu, 512 MB RAM and a sis video card.

The live cd takes a while to boot but finally gets there. Upon install though my machine goes into hibernation every few minutes which makes installation virtually impossible.

The machine is on the ac adapter so no battery life problems.

Is there any way to turn that nuisence off?
I looked in sys config, kontrol and other places.

The alt cd just comes up with a green screen.

[jankushka]

Re: Hibernation woes.

i have once inadvertently clicked on "hibernate when lid closed" just before shutting down.
went to the office, docked my laptop into its station and...
well, my laptop would "shut down" immediately after coming up...
it took me a while to realize what was going on...
so, you could check that first.
then, maybe, supposing this behaviour is caused by the powermanager,
you could try and stop/uninstall the powermanager stuff.
otherwise...mmm...what about overheating?
hth
cheers

[Fintan]

Re: Hibernation woes.

i have once inadvertently clicked on "hibernate when lid closed" just before shutting down.
went to the office, docked my laptop into its station and...
well, my laptop would "shut down" immediately after coming up...

Thanks for the reply but that can't be it. As I just want to install from the live cd, I didn't click on anything.

I tried looking for the power management stuff but couldn0't find it.

Probably blind.

I also tried a copy of mepis 6.5. This blocks the session with a "ubuntu session blocking" message of some sort. So I have to unblock the session with the root password every 20 or so seconds. Doesn't help installation much either

I think they are related. Maybe it is not hibernation but session blocking. As kubuntu live doesn't have a root login as such.

Where do I unlock session locking during install??

I also checked overheating. I wouldn't know where to set the temp. parimiters, if there are any but under win200 it runs fine.

Anyway I am at a loss.

Ch eers and enjoy your weekend

[jankushka]

Re: Hibernation woes.

i see.
so the system works all right with windoze.
we can most probably rule out any hw issues.
but you have these funny behaviours no matter what linux you boot...
i'd probably
a) have a go with the gnome ubuntu desktop cd, to see if the problem is somehow kde related
and/or
b) have a go with knoppix to see if the problem is somehow ubuntu (as a distro) related

[Fintan]

Re: Hibernation woes.

Sorry for the delay, you are right sort of, ubuntu 7.04 loaded in live without shutting off all the time.
But we both wanted kde. (sorry gnome) so we tried the last pclinuxos 2007.
Installed within 20min and all we had to do was install the sis drivers. bingo.

I seriousely think the kubuntu kde guys are missing a few things, but that is for latter.

Thanks Januschka for your pointers

Cheers
F