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Post by pharrisire on May 5, 2012 11:19:56 GMT -5
To try and avoid having to redo all my preferences which are not saved by
"Backup settings", I thought if I just shut Lenovo's lid it would go into a sleep
mode like it did when it use to have windows on it. But now that it is %100 KNOS
it doesn't do that anymore. Is there a KNOS/bsd workaround to get a sleep
mode so I don't have to spend so much time getting settings just the way I
want them every time I boot/reboot?
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on May 5, 2012 23:45:54 GMT -5
To try and avoid having to redo all my preferences which are not saved by "Backup settings", I thought if I just shut Lenovo's lid it would go into a sleep mode like it did when it use to have windows on it. But now that it is %100 KNOS it doesn't do that anymore. Is there a KNOS/bsd workaround to get a sleep mode so I don't have to spend so much time getting settings just the way I want them every time I boot/reboot? "Sleep" (also called "hibernate" depends on dumping all of the system's memory onto hard disk and then reading the hard disk back in to "wake up." Because KNOS doesn't write to hard disk, there's no way to support a "sleep mode" ... when the lid is closed on Lenovos or any other laptop, KNOS is designed to slow down the CPU to its lowest permissible speed and turn off the display, but that's all we can do without being able to dump to your hard disk which carries all the security risks KNOS is intended to avoid. We have fixed the issues though with app settings backups, so at least that shouldn't be a problem once we get you the release version ... had we spotted the mixup in the original setting save earlier, it would have been handled in the RC release. Sorry about that! |
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Post by pharrisire on May 7, 2012 13:57:36 GMT -5
It gets quite warm if I leave the lid shut very long -
not actually hot, but warm enough that I didn't feel
comfortable leaving it that way very long.
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on May 8, 2012 4:36:59 GMT -5
It gets quite warm if I leave the lid shut very long - not actually hot, but warm enough that I didn't feel comfortable leaving it that way very long. Not much we can do there. But you should be able to save your settings to a stick and be able to reboot when you want to quickly. Having a hibernate mode would be a major security hole if someone could stuff something into that space. It would live forever thereafter even if we could back up your entire memory (that's what hibernate/sleep does) and still have room for everything else. Having it 100% KNOS ... does that mean you've installed to the hard disk? Then you should have a large portion of disk space expressed in "(size)GB media" on your desktop (didn't notice it in your old diagnostics, but if you DO, that's where you would save your settings ... |
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Post by pharrisire on May 8, 2012 12:13:56 GMT -5
""Having it 100% KNOS ... does that mean you've installed to the hard disk? ""
Yes, indeed. Long ago. Remember that aggravation of trying to find a way to update the bios till you
eventually found out from Lenovo that I could not update bios unless I installed Windows again?
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on May 8, 2012 23:55:25 GMT -5
""Having it 100% KNOS ... does that mean you've installed to the hard disk? "" Yes, indeed. Long ago. Remember that aggravation of trying to find a way to update the bios till you eventually found out from Lenovo that I could not update bios unless I installed Windows again? OK ... HERE, I have some good news for you. You got short changed on your KNOS install somehow. You SHOULD have a personal disk space on that hard disk. We're expecting to have KNOS Secure Desktop version 9 released after this coming weekend. So you can either do this now, or wait until you get the release version. KNOS 9 eats about 6GB of that hard disk. You *should* have a 24.something GB personal area on there which you don't have right now. Means that all that extra space is there, but not available to you. I'll guess this happened because when you installed KNOS to it, you opted for "upgrade" rather than the knos2usb mode. The "upgrade" mode is there so that your "personal space" is left alone and only the OS itself gets upgraded, leaving your data in that personal area untouched. If you were to reinstall KNOS on it and select the knos2usb mode, it will make up that space for you and make it available for storage. THAT is where you'd want to save your settings. And when release comes out, THEN you would do the "upgrade" install every time after that. But since that space isn't showing up on the left side there for you to use, and no sign of it in the diagnostics, that would be why your backup wasn't working. Once you have the personal space formatted and installed, you should see a new item with the size of remaining disk space there. It'll show as something like "##.#GB Media" and it's yours to save files to, including the KNOS_PREFS stuff ... then reboots should work as intended! |
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Post by pharrisire on May 9, 2012 13:28:43 GMT -5
THAT'S more like it!! Words can not express what a relief it is not to have to go thru my set-it-just-right routine every time I reboot! Thank You! To celebrate, a Brand New diags from LenovoKNOS32 is on its way! Attachments:
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on May 10, 2012 1:29:33 GMT -5
THAT'S more like it!! Words can not express what a relief it is not to have to go thru my set-it-just-right routine every time I reboot! Thank You! To celebrate, a Brand New diags from LenovoKNOS32 is on its way! There ya go! I see you even went with a minty-fresh theme.  Once again, sorry for not connecting the dots there. Although our stick-maker spells out the difference, we're making that difference more noticeable in the manual that comes with KNOS so that hopefully nobody else will have to go through that ... |
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