>> Using Linux? >Well, yes, ... what else ? The Pentium implements the sleep function, as far as I remember, and Linux supports it. You probably had a broken kernel. (I am assuming a ``normal'' use of the computer, or course, where one writes, stops, thinks, then writes again and so forth.) SB ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/