From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: During the entire installation my machine repeatedly went into a suspend like state and immediately resumed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install null from CD-RW ISOs, on a 7.3 Athlon, 2 IDE HDs, USB mouse, Geforce4 system (didn't happen when I upgraded from 7.2->7.3 or before) 2. 3. Actual Results: Specifically, the display and two IDE HDs would power off (display blanked - monitor lost signal) and HD wound down. This only lasted 2-3 seconds each time (the power light blinked during this time). The display always came back immediately and the HDs could be heard spinning up. The cursor was frozen until the HDs has spun-up. The installation process was otherwise uneffected (except for delays). Virtual console F4 showed that each time it happened a disconnect and reconnect event occured for the USB MS Intellimouse. The install took about 1 hour (~normal time) and I estimate it happened about 15-20 times. I didn't time the interval, but it seemed periodic rather an being triggered by something. Expected Results: The installation shouldn't have triggered this to happen (obviously - very weird). Additional info: A regular Athlon PC - K7T266 Pro2 board (VIA KT266A). Has been upgraded from a fresh redhat 7.0->7.2->7.3 now -> null. Also had some Ximian packages that I opted to overwrite during install. Seems to be fine after installation. 2 IDE's HDs, USB mouse, GeForce4, DVD-ROM, Floppy I've never used any powersaving features or software. Perhaps related, or not, the USB Intellmouse was not recognized after the installation (tried several reboots). The red-optical laser would light during the BIOS boot screen, but go out never to re-light once linux was booting. Changing it to another USB slot (a USB2 slot - different controller) fixed the problem. I'll file that as another bug.
Arjan any ideas why a machine would powersave? Any boot options that would disable this?
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