How to turn off Power Saving mode?

[moepower]

I mistakenly reply "Yes" when asked if I wanted to turn on the PowerSave feature (it turned off the server when it sits idle for 30 minutes). How do I go about turning off this feature? I am running Solaris 8 on a Sun Ultra 5 box.

ps. I said "No" when asked if it should ask about the PowerSave feature upon the server rebooting. Oops!

Thanks,

 

[cfsalmeida]

The power.conf file in the /etc directory lets you set the configuration for managing system power. It also enables you to set display power configurations that are followed for that display when a CDE or OpenWindows desktop isn't present, in CDE you can use dtpower to disable power management, on command line you can edit /etc/power.conf and change "system-threshold" to "always-on", then you must inform Power Management framework of the new setting by running pmconfig, you can also check "power.conf" man page for more details.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Carlos Almeida.

 

[012]

Hi,
Does anyone of u know how to disable power-key of a sun keyboard attached to a sun sparc machine?
Thanx ...

 

[cfsalmeida]

To disable that "feature" basically you need to rename the file in /usr/openwin/bin/speckeysd to speckeysd.old then reboot the system. So the power key will be disabled, another workaround for temporarily as follows:

ps -elf | grep speckeysd | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9

Normal operation of power demon will be restored at next reboot.

Or comment out the line 344 from /usr/dt/bin/Xsession that says:
#
# Start Sun special key daemon for support of
# Power keys, Bightness keys, Audio keys
#
#===>> comment out this line StartFirst dtstart_sdtspeckeysd

Hope this helps.

Regards.

Carlos Almeida.

 

[012]

Hi Carlos,
Thanks...I will try that today.....