Re: [SLE] How to stop screensavers?
"Carlos E. R."
The Thursday 2004-02-19 at 12:44 +1100, Michael James wrote:
Still I get screensavers coming on. It's summer and too hot here (36 C+) so don't want them because they heat up my graphics card, (cheap Nvidia Geforce with no fan) and it locks up.
At worst, define a blank screensaver, or one that powers off the display, instead of displaying "nice" graphics: it should be better for your card and monitor. You may also enable "DPMS" in "/etc/X11/XF86Config"; also, check the options: BlankTime, StandbyTime, SuspendTime, and OffTime in ServerFlags.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Hi, Given all the things you tried, you probably thought of this, but have you considered: finding some way to cool room, adding another fan in box, drilling some holes in box, moving your ribbon cables, and/or relocating your graphics card to another slot ??? Hope this helps, HAND -- __________________________________________________________________ Introducing the New Netscape Internet Service. Only $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
The Friday 2004-02-20 at 05:50 -0500, GarUlbricht7@netscape.net wrote:
Given all the things you tried, you probably thought of this, but have you considered:
finding some way to cool room, adding another fan in box, drilling some holes in box, moving your ribbon cables, and/or relocating your graphics card to another slot ???
Screensavers were invented to "save" the screen from burning by having the same fixed image burned into the screen - but these nice screensavers needs so much heavy calculations that they reheat the card or the cpu, precisely when the computer is not used. The are nice demos, but not really worth of the name "screen saver". -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Friday 20 February 2004 21:50, GarUlbricht7@netscape.net wrote:
Given all the things you tried, you probably thought of this, but have you considered:
finding some way to cool room, adding another fan in box, drilling some holes in box, moving your ribbon cables, and/or relocating your graphics card to another slot ???
LOL, yes, a PCI slot fan has fixed the overheating. And I battle with the security mavens to keep the window open at night and cool the room down. Now the only real problem is my own bloody-mindedness. I thought I'd try to turn off screen savers, and they wouldn't go, so now I REALLY don't want screensavers. This is Linux, I don't have to put up with these windows-like annoyances, "That's just the way it is..." -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 10:09 +1100, Michael James wrote:
Now the only real problem is my own bloody-mindedness. I thought I'd try to turn off screen savers, and they wouldn't go, so now I REALLY don't want screensavers. This is Linux, I don't have to put up with these windows-like annoyances, "That's just the way it is..."
You're running KDE, right? I assume you've unchecked the 'start autmatically' in the kde control center screen saver setup. Some people advocate running the gnome settings daemon in KDE to get good fonts. Are you? Because it starts xscreensaver by default. If that's the case, run gconf-editor, go to apps->gnome_settings_daemon-
screensaver and uncheck it
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 10:09 +1100, Michael James wrote:
Now the only real problem is my own bloody-mindedness. I thought I'd try to turn off screen savers, and they wouldn't go, so now I REALLY don't want screensavers. This is Linux, I don't have to put up with these windows-like annoyances, "That's just the way it is..."
You're running KDE, right? I assume you've unchecked the 'start autmatically' in the kde control center screen saver setup.
Some people advocate running the gnome settings daemon in KDE to get good fonts. Are you? Because it starts xscreensaver by default.
If that's the case, run gconf-editor, go to apps->gnome_settings_daemon-
screensaver and uncheck it
Maybe this is only a little related. But how would enable screensavers in windowmaker?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 22 February 2004 07:09 pm, Michael James wrote:
Now the only real problem is my own bloody-mindedness. I thought I'd try to turn off screen savers, and they wouldn't go, so now I REALLY don't want screensavers. This is Linux, I don't have to put up with these windows-like annoyances, "That's just the way it is..."
I noticed this first in 8.2 when my system was locking up on 3d screen savers. It turned out that my Nvidia driver, my Nvidia video card, and my Nvidia motherboard didn't really play nice with each other. X would use up 99% cpu time and stop. Setting "nvagp 0" in XF86Config got rid of the hangs, but now my agp is disabled... I found that the only way I could disable the screensavers was to remove xscreensaver and any packages that depend on it. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAO2sp4U2uQswGyDcRAnFtAKDHL2Jk1ebSMoOSo9ORI2HoILGOegCbBaRP t+Vz64HNj9NCygWKAs2fEcY= =Cwa5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
participants (7)
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Anders Johansson
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Carlos E. R.
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GarUlbricht7@netscape.net
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James Oakley
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Ken Hughes
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Michael James
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Tom Allison