Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4344 mails)

["Greg Wallace" <jgregw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday, August 21, 2005 @ 11:20 AM, Darryl Gregorash wrote:

>Kenneth Payne wrote:
>>Greg -
>>
>>Thanks for your suggestion, but as it happens my problem is solved. It
turned 
>>out to be my stupidity - I thought I had the screensaver set but I hadn't
and 
>>it was defaulting to a blank screen.
>>  

>There is one other place that is involved in turning the screen off, and
>it bugged me greatly until I started digging everywhere. I use a blank
>screensaver by preference, with a 30 minute setting. I was still getting
>screen off after 10.

>Turning off ACPI in the BIOS didn't work (Linux seems to be famous for
>ignoring BIOS settings and using system capabilities instead -- which is
>nice if you must fool the BIOS because of some bug, not necessarily nice
>always).

>KDE by default uses DPMS, and that setting is nowhere near the one for
>the screensaver. Open KControl, click on Peripherals/Display, then
>select the "Power control" tab. There you can deselect power management,
>or if you choose to use it, configure separate timings for standby,
>suspend and power off. The defaults are 10, 20 and 30 minutes,
>respectively, which is where your 10 minute interval is coming from.

>Arun Khan also suggested running "xset -dpms" which does the same thing.
>The xset command is probably worth looking at, because it performs a lot
>of tasks that KDE has scattered all over the place (and that is annoying
>to say the least).

My monitor has a built-in power down after 5 minutes of inactivity on the
screen.  So, I have to set my screen savers to fire up after 4 minutes;
otherwise, the monitor powers down (it doesn't turn off, it just shuts off
the signal to the screen).

Greg Wallace