Sorry for the delay in replying; been on the road the past week.

I'm also sorry to say that I haven't the foggiest idea where to begin with your problem -- I have a central "monitoring box" which keeps track of my four UPS-units, and have never experienced the behavior you describe. The machines ...

Sorry for the delay in replying to this; been on the road the past week.

I've done some digging around the apcupsd-users list, and found this . Scroll down to the bottom for the official word, but I infer that the CS-series currently has issues "hibernating" properly. This will hopefully be ...

Different problem with the ebuild: /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: /usr/local/portage/app-emulation/wine-cvs/wine-cvs-001.ebuild: line 76: syntax error near unexpected token `||'
/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: /usr/local/portage/app-emulation/wine-cvs/wine-cvs-001.ebuild: line 76: ` || die ...

Have you had any luck troubleshooting this?

For what it's worth, my system behaves in a similar fashion: with the X-server running at power failure, the screen images will "freeze" in place and remain until the system loses power (due to the UPS unit itself shutting down). From a straight console ...

ectospasm:

First off, thanks for the input. Let me take this point-by-point...

You might want to mention that with the current version of apcupsd (3.10.16), the /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf file has a heavy dose of comments, so it's quite easy to figure out what each option does, and tailor it for ...

This is (unfortunately) simply status, not a solution: still no joy with gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.10-r4/wine-20041019. Tried emerging wine-20041201 but it fails to compile cleanly on my system.

My system's behavior is identical to yours: the installation is detected, but CD detection fails regardless ...

Thanks for posting.

All I can offer on the subject of your USB troubles is a “congratulations” that it’s working now. The vagaries of USB hubs and peripherals are legion, and my advice is usually limited to a reiteration of APC’s recommendation that the UPS not be plugged into a hub. Since it ...

Attention suhlhorn (and anyone else playing along at home):

mark_lagace has posted (what seems to be) a viable workaround for the UPS “killpower” issue that was discussed here back in September. Please have a look.

If there are any issues with this, feel free to discuss them here. Thanks again ...

That's a nice piece of work, sir.

I've tested this three times on the following configuration: P4 2.53GHz, SiS chipset, gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8-r10, Back-UPS XS 800, standalone configuration. ...and it seems to work. The only issue I had was during the first test: I apparently forgot to restart ...

Thanks.

I'd be interested in hearing about your experiences with apcupsd under Windows; this is one area I haven't explored extensively, but would eventually like to add to the main document (for those running heterogeneous environments).

Can't tell you anything about Frozen Throne, but for what it's worth...

W3:RoC loads flawlessly about half the time; as for the remainder, it seems to require an intricate combination of: Mounting and unmounting the media.
Multiple attempts to start the game; the first few either fail without ...

Actually, my "solution" for the CD detection issue was to downgrade from 2.6.9-r1 to 2.6.8-r10. Nothing more, nothing less.

I'll give it another go when the next iteration of gentoo-dev-sources hits Portage, but in the meantime, there's nothing in 2.6.9 that I can't live without.

CHANGELOG:

Thanks go to ectospasm for providing the information which now makes up the new CALIBRATION section of the main document.

ADDED “CALIBRATION” SECTION.

Glad to hear it!

I'll make a note of the calibration issue in the main document within the next few hours...meanwhile, I hope it continues to run smoothly for you.

Also, thanks for all you've done to ferret this issue out and get it resolved.

ConVicTioN:

I'm not using any TransGaming products, nor is the CD detection an issue for me at this time; regardless, thanks for the tip. Perhaps I'll have a look at that sometime in the future...

Darckness:

Thanks again for your assistance. All things considered, I'm going to call this little ...

Got it. Mostly.

Took me a bit to find a working ebuild for 20040914, so for posterity’s sake let me say that I used this one (making the corrections the author mentioned in his successive comment).

After that, rebuilding the whole mess (as above) was textbook. The game starts with no problems ...

Happy to be of service (whether directly or not)…and good catch on CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB. Since I didn’t see it in your diff output, I forgot all about saying “no” to it. Glad it’s all sorted.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread, already in progress…

Interesting.

I vaguely remember reading something about proper calibration when I was first working with apcupsd , but I never thought it would lead to that wide of a discrepancy between reported and actual runtime. Then again, I don't own an RS 1500, and I did let all my units charge for a minimum ...

I'll see what I can do with it tonight...and yeah, I've been sticking with the oss driver in Wine after one ugly experiment with winealsa.drv.

Will post the results once I've had a chance to suss things out. Thanks again.

A couple thoughts…

First, which version of apcupsd are you using?

Second, it looks like you’ve got two USB hubs: one using the UHCI controller (an onboard Intel, I gather) and one using the OHCI controller (a PCI card, if I’m not mistaken). Which one is the UPS connected to? Have you tried ...

So, progress (of a sort).

First off, I googled the bulk of that error message; the result led me back to WineHQ and their article on running WC3. While wading through the detection nonsense, I’d apparently forgotten to do something about the movies (which I had read about before and promptly ...

I never mentioned any moral qualms with using a crack; I simply stated that I'd prefer not to use one unless absolutely necessary. If that's the only option available to me, I consider it fair use of the game I purchased and will continue to sleep soundly at night. Regardless, I can understand your ...

So I noticed we were dangerously close to going 48 hours without a post about WarCraft III and Wine; can't allow that to happen, can we?

Basically, this is about my third attempt at running a game under Wine in as many years. All have resulted in “Hell with it, I'll play it under Windows” and a ...

Yeah...I was already grasping at straws, and the version increase was basically the last I had to offer on your problem.

I sincerely hope someone at apcupsd-users can get you an answer...please let me know what you find, and good luck with it.

If you're using an APC UPS unit, you might want to have a look at the HOWTO I wrote on the subject...and if you're not using an APC product, you may find something useful anyway (check the KERNEL CONFIGURATION section).

The first thing that springs to mind from your post is checking to make sure ...