Use Linux Swap Partition at Boot?

[mzilikazi]

OK, I'm not at home to test this. But xset -dpms and killall apmd sound promising! How about apmd stop?

/etc/init.d/apmd stop

BTW, do these commands have to have to be issued from a roor shell or will a regular shell do?

Well yes you'd need to issue those commands as root.

Also, that's all well and good for me, but is there something "gui," say a kde utility that will work too. My users are not too linux savvy....

TIA,
AJG

kde? gui?? I haven't the foggiest idea what you're talking about.

[A. Jorge Garcia]

1st try: I tried xset -dpms in a regular shell. The command was recognized with no errors but it didn't help the problem.

2nd try: I tried killall apmd in a regular shell. The command was not permitted.

3rd try: I tried sudo killall apmd in a regular shell. The command was recognized with no errors but it didn't help the problem.

4th try: I tried apmd stop in a regular shell. The command was not permitted.

5th try: I tried sudo apmd stop in a regular shell. The command was not permitted.

6th try: I tried /etc/init.d/apmd stop in a root shell. The command was recognized with no errors but it didn't help the problem.

7th try: I tried xset -dpms in a root shell. The command was recognized with no errors but it didn't help the problem.

8th try: I tried killall apmd in a root shell. The command was recognized with no errors but it didn't help the problem.

No joy so far, nothing seems to work!!!

Regards,
AJG

[eco2geek]

"What's a virtual partition," I here you ask? Damned good question, I never heard of that either! I get active vs. passive partitions. I get primary vs. logical partitions. I don't get virtual partitions....

I'm not close to a Knoppix box right now, but in my experience you have to use the "commit" menu command in QTParted to write your changes to your hard disk. Otherwise you get error messages about "virtual partitions." Also, your changes do not automatically take effect until you use the "commit" command.

[mzilikazi]

No joy so far, nothing seems to work!!!

Regards,
AJG

You might check to see if apmd or acpid is even running first:

ps aux|grep apm
ps aux|grep acpi

I should *think* that one of those daemons should be responsible. I suggest apm only because I imagine that your box is too old to use acpi but I'm wrong at least twice a day.

Since you're effectively 'keyboardless' at boot perhaps it's possible to create a persistent home that passes noapm or noapic or acpi=off on boot? (Sorry not too familiar w/ the persistent home feature). It now dawns on me that perhaps you need a kb to use the persistent home as well......I dunno.

[A. Jorge Garcia]

I'm not close to a Knoppix box right now, but in my experience you have to use the "commit" menu command in QTParted to write your changes to your hard disk. Otherwise you get error messages about "virtual partitions." Also, your changes do not automatically take effect until you use the "commit" command.

Actually that sounds like the "write the partition table (y/n)" option in cfdisk. I may be wrong, but I've used qtparted a lot and don't recall this "commit" option. Thanx anyway, eco!

EDIT: Hey, eco, you may be on to something, after all! I just ran qtparted and found this "commit" option. Is this a new version or something? I don't recall ever needing to do this.... I'm going to have to dig that PC out of the garage again and try this out! Thanx again, eco!!

Regards,
AJG

[A. Jorge Garcia]

It now dawns on me that perhaps you need a kb to use the persistent home as well......I dunno.

I think you're right. There's some cheatcode like myscan or somesuch....

I've never used persistent home as the default KNOPPIX config is usually fine for my users. If they need something special, they can use an hd install or ssh over to one.

Thanx for all your help though! I like all this brainstorming, that's what usually gets the job done! Thanx, mzilikazi!

Regards,
AJG

[A. Jorge Garcia]

ps aux|grep apm
ps aux|grep acpi

I tried these commands in the root shell. The first returned something like

/usr/sbin/apmd -P ...

the second returned nothing. So its apm that I'm running after all.

Regards,
AJG

[A. Jorge Garcia]

eco,

I dragged that thing out of the garage (my friend dumped it here) and tried everything all over again with the "commit" option. Unfortunately, commit returns an error about the free space reported being wrong. Forget it, there must be something really wrong with this hdd! Maybe I could find one with which to swap it out....

Good try, though!

Thanx anyway,
AKG