Redhat Fedora on Laptop

[Rallispec]

Things that i took for granted in windows -- i cannot find to save my life running fedora RC2. (mostly becuase i suck at the linux)

anyhow -- i want to do stuff like turn off my monitor after X amount of minutes and not put my laptop into standby when i close the lid.

thanks~

 

[drag]

All in all it depends on how well supported your Laptop is. A lot of laptops have crummy ACPI support under Linux.

Personally I never messed around with it a whole lot, it's a bit of a sore spot when it comes to Linux.

For the Monitor shutoff you may have to edit your X configuration. see here Scroll down to section "2.4. XF86Config Tuning", it's for XF86Config, but yours is going to be /etc/X11/Xorg.conf

Basicly you edit the sections and make sure that "Option "DPMS"" is in your monitor sections and then you add those options with whatever time you want to your server layout section. Editing text files for configurations is pretty normal stuff to do in linux. You are going to have to be superuser to edit it ("su -" command.). There may be some Fedora specific configuration GUI whatnot to do it, ask for that in Fedora's users forums.

For the rest of power management stuff it's going to depend heavily on your laptop make and model. Check out http://www.linux-laptop.net/ for your model or one similar to it and see what they figured out.

There are nice GUI little tools called "desklets" that you can install that have been made for laptop's ACPI stuff, but like I said before I never messed around with it much.
http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/

Stuff like this is pretty much Distro-specific for GUI tools and such, check out Fedora's forums and see if you can get better directions...
http://fedoraforum.org/forum

 

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Originally posted by: Rallispec
Things that i took for granted in windows -- i cannot find to save my life running fedora RC2. (mostly becuase i suck at the linux)

anyhow -- i want to do stuff like turn off my monitor after X amount of minutes and not put my laptop into standby when i close the lid.

thanks~

What kind of lappie do you have.
I have found numerous rpm for my thinkpad r32 that really help with all the special laptop issues.
Ranging from ACPI to using the volume keys and the special IBM button. I found all these on DAG. I am sure there are some out there for

http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/packages.php

some of the rpms I found useful are
tpb
tpctl
tphdisk
kernel-inbasm

 

[frontwards]

there should be an option in the screen saver settings (from the menu you would choose preferences>screensaver). if you click on the settings there is a tab that has power settings, or something of that nature, and you can turn power saving options on (stand-by, power-off the monitor, etc.).

i'm not sure about closing the lid of your laptop though.

drag mentioned gdesklets, i would check these out if i were you. there are desklets that allow you to see the battery life you have left and other helpful monitoring stuff (of course, i'm not sure how supported your laptop will be, but it's worth a try.)

 

[Rallispec]

Thanks for the help~

the laptop is an old dell latitude C800.

I'll see what I can find over on the fedora forums or the other websites you guys mentioned.

thanks again for the help.