Hi all, i just subscribed to this list to keep myself busy on the train journeys to/from work :) I live in Belgium and am a happy and proud Linux user for about 7 years now. I started out with SuSE 6.3 that i bought in a box from a store, and am bitten by the Linux-virus since then... I tried several other distros after SuSE, but am now back to SuSE because its the perfect choice for my needs, very user-friendly without taking away the power and control. I run SuSE9.3 on a Dell Lattitude CPx 650 laptop (not the newest but still running smooth), an amd duron desktop and a celeron desktop pc. I have a question to start with -> I configured about everything now on my laptop (have it for about 3 weeks now), and only 2 things gave me a hard time, configuring the trackpoint (fixed now), and enabling dpms... I tried about everything to enable dpms, from sax to manually editing the xorg.conf, but nothing seems to work... Are there some known issues with this kind of laptop and dpms??? Thanks for reading my long (probably boring ;)) introduction :) Michel Storms
On Sunday 02 October 2005 9:53 pm, ph0b0s wrote:
I tried about everything to enable dpms, from sax to manually editing the xorg.conf, but nothing seems to work... Are there some known issues with this kind of laptop and dpms???
Welcome and the biggest thing for dpms is the latest kernel.... Ready for SuSE 10? B-)
Brad Bourn wrote:
On Sunday 02 October 2005 9:53 pm, ph0b0s wrote:
I tried about everything to enable dpms, from sax to manually editing the xorg.conf, but nothing seems to work... Are there some known issues with this kind of laptop and dpms???
Welcome and the biggest thing for dpms is the latest kernel....
Ready for SuSE 10?
B-)
Thanks :) I doubt that the kernel is the problem, because dpms works fine in fedora and mandriva :s While the only difference was the option "dpms" in xorg.conf, which i added manually but without success -- -----> reply to ---> d4RKrITU4L@gmail.com <--- reply to <----- Please be patient when waiting for a reply, i work offline most of the time... -- ph0b0s
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 01:28 pm, ph0b0s wrote:
Brad Bourn wrote:
On Sunday 02 October 2005 9:53 pm, ph0b0s wrote:
I tried about everything to enable dpms, from sax to manually editing the xorg.conf, but nothing seems to work... Are there some known issues with this kind of laptop and dpms???
Welcome and the biggest thing for dpms is the latest kernel....
Ready for SuSE 10?
B-)
Thanks :) I doubt that the kernel is the problem, because dpms works fine in fedora and mandriva :s While the only difference was the option "dpms" in xorg.conf, which i added manually but without success
Did you enable 'display power mgmt' under the KDE Control Center?? Control Center --> Peripherals --> display --> Power Control
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Bruce Marshall wrote:
Did you enable 'display power mgmt' under the KDE Control Center??
Control Center --> Peripherals --> display --> Power Control
Yes it's enabled... I also tried logging into an Xsession as root, because i was thinking that it was maybe some kind of a permission problem, but same problem there... What DOES happen, is that the screen 'blanks', without having an activated screensaver, but the display light stays on... Annoying... ;) -- -----> reply to ---> d4RKrITU4L@gmail.com <--- reply to <----- Please be patient when waiting for a reply, i work offline most of the time... -- ph0b0s
On Tuesday, October 04, 2005 @ 8:14 PM, ph0b0s wrote:
Bruce Marshall wrote:
Did you enable 'display power mgmt' under the KDE Control Center??
Control Center --> Peripherals --> display --> Power Control
Yes it's enabled... I also tried logging into an Xsession as root, because i was thinking that it was maybe some kind of a permission problem, but same problem there... What DOES happen, is that the screen 'blanks', without having an activated screensaver, but the display light stays on...
Annoying... ;)
I have a desktop machine that is set to start up a screensaver after 4 minutes. The screensaver then runs indefinitely. That's what I want. It took me a while to get there. I'll give you my setup. If this isn't exactly what you want, you could start tweaking from there. Just an option. Here are my powersave settings -- POWERSAVE_SCHEME_NAME="Desktop" POWERSAVE_SCHEME_DESCRIPTION="Desktop" POWERSAVE_CPUFREQUENCY="performance" POWERSAVE_ALLOW_THROTTLING="no" POWERSAVE_MAX_THROTTLING="50" POWERSAVE_DISK_STANDBY_MODE="off" POWERSAVE_DISK_ACOUSTIC="performance" POWERSAVE_USER_INPUT_TIMEOUT="100" POWERSAVE_ACTION_USER_INPUT_TIMEOUT="screen_saver" POWERSAVE_COOLING_POLICY="active" POWERSAVE_ALWAYS_THROTTLE="no" POWERSAVE_DISABLE_DISPLAY_SETTINGS="no" POWERSAVE_DISABLE_SCREEN_SAVER="no" POWERSAVE_DISABLE_DPMS="no" POWERSAVE_DPMS_STANDBY="5" POWERSAVE_DPMS_SUSPEND="7" POWERSAVE_DPMS_OFF="10" In Configure Desktop (right click on desktop) -- Screen Saver Start Automatically after 4 minutes Require password to stop <-- Not selected Make aware of power management <-- Not selected Display Power Control tab Enable power settings <-- Not selected Greg Wallace
On Sunday 02 October 2005 23:53, ph0b0s wrote:
Hi all, <snip>
Welcome back!
Thanks for reading my long (probably boring ;)) introduction :)
I'll take a long pleasant introduction with an intelligent question over an exhausting rant any day of the week! regards, - Carl
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