Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4344 mails)

[Kenneth Payne <kmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

Thanks again

Best wishes

- Ken

On Sunday 21 August 2005 04:47, Greg Wallace wrote:
> On Saturday, August 20, 2005 @ 2:36 Am, Kenneth Payne wrote:
> >I've just upgraded to SuSE 9.3 and I now have a system where the display
> >blanks out after about 10 minutes of non-use.
> >
> >This is obviously power-management and it's working OK because if I touch
> >the
> >mouse or keyboard the display restores immediately.
> >
> >However, I never like this behaviour in a desktop PC so I always shut it
> >off.
> >This time, I can't seem to kill it. I've stopped the powersave demon, I've
> >put acpi=off (that worked in SuSE 9.2) into the boot parameters, but
>
> nothing
>
> >stops it.
> >
> >Can anyone tell me the magic incantation?
> >
> >Best wishes
> >
> >-Ken
>
> I think you just need to set up a screen saver so that your monitor has a
> steady signal.  That should keep it from dozing off.
>
> Greg Wallace