At 08:43 AM 15/10/2004 +1100, you wrote:

>Does alt-f1 work?
>Does hitting the suspend/sleep key on your keyboard wake it up again?
>I'd probably disable power saving, or just use it to power off the monitor.

Thanks to both Nigel and Norman for responding. In fact, I do have acpi
set false in grub, so I guess the command line is responding to the ACM
settings in the BIOS. I did a bit of googling last night after posting
this and decided that, for 9.2, I can sort of forget about acpi.

I do want the system to go to sleep most of the time. :-) Its usual use
is just as a server for a number of things. I have Sleep and Wake keys on
the k/b but I long ago lost the drivers for the keyboard. I can live with
remembering not to let the system go to sleep with the GUI in the foreground.

cheers, and thanks for the tips.

Helen