What does this mean? (linux)

[jcontonio]

Nov 14 11:49:04 boxcar kernel: NVRM: avoiding suspend request, don't want to shutdown!!

I am getting that in my messages log....all the time.

 

[Nothinman]

What kernel version?

 

[jcontonio]

Well, I am kind of new at this and forget the command to display the full version in the CLI...but I am running Mandrake 8.1. The full error is :

Nov 14 14:20:18 boxcar kernel: nv_kern_pm event: rqst 0x0 data 0x3
Nov 14 14:20:18 boxcar kernel: NVRM: avoiding suspend request, don't want to shutdown!!

If you can tell me what the command was to display my kernel version I'll post that. I remember it's something -a like arch -a or whatever...I'll try to figure it out.

EDIT: 2.4.8-26mdk - I believe this is it?

 

[n0cmonkey]

"uname -a" I believe.

 

[Nothinman]

If you don't need APM enabled try disabling it.

 

[jcontonio]

Don't even know what APM is sir...

Edit : I did a ps aux and saw this up top :

root 4 91.4 0.0 0 0 ? SW 08:17 376:09 [kapm-idled]

is that it? It's taking up 91.4% CPU Usage...I have nothing running on the machine either...just sshd. Damn! How do I disable this? What is it?
To disable it on boot I rename it in the rc.d directory right?

 

[Nothinman]

APM is Advanced Power Management

 

[jcontonio]

Is that something in the BIOS I have to turn off? I searched and searched for APM and can't find it in running services. I did find that KAPM...91% of CPU usage doesn't seem good to me...unless there's something I don't know.

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< Is that something in the BIOS I have to turn off? I searched and searched for APM and can't find it in running services. I did find that KAPM...91% of CPU usage doesn't seem good to me...unless there's something I don't know. >>



KAPM is probably a kde frontend to control the apm stuff. I think apm is either built into the kernel or as a module. Upgrade your kernel to the newest, turn off apm if you dont need it and see if that fixes things.

 

[Nothinman]

As long as you disable APM in the bios the kernel shouldn't do anything about it, and kapm-idled is the kernel APM daemon, it uses all the idle CPU time to issue APM/HLT commands to the processor.

 

[jcontonio]

So I can disable KAPM with no problems?



<< As long as you disable APM in the bios the kernel shouldn't do anything about it, and kapm-idled is the kernel APM daemon, it uses all the idle CPU time to issue APM/HLT commands to the processor. >>

 

[Nothinman]

You can't kill kapm-idled, it's a kernel thread.

Disable APM in the BIOS and it shouldn't appear. Or rebuild a kernel without APM support in it.