[ale] system sleep during inactivity

[J. Reeves Hall]

McCord, Charlie wrote:
> 
> greetings all,
> 
> my system will not sleep during inactivity even though cmos is set to
> allow it to sleep.
> 
> is it now up to the os to initiate sleep?
> 
> is there a setting?
> 
> a different screen saver is invoked every fifteen minutes, will this
> keep the system from
> sleeping?
> 
> any help is appreciated.
> charlie mccord

Enable advanced power management, which will probably require a kernel
recompile. Also make sure apmd loads.

-Reeves