On Saturday 22 January 2011 11:03:54 C wrote:
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:31, Peter Nikolic wrote:
previous to having to reinstall this box everything was trucking along just fine but now , sat watching TV or a film then the monitors just go into standby mode (dpms kills them orft) now if i want my monitors to turn off i have a switch for that reason i do not want something else trying to tell me when i want them off so now the main question how do i kill deader than a petrified Dodo DPMS it is not wanted at all it serves no purpose at all it just hacks me off i want it dead dead dead i tell you :-) ..
I have got everything turned off everywhere i can find mention i just know i have missed something but WHAT! boy is this getting at me or what .
What app are you using to watch TV/movies? What settings have you already twiddled? eg Configure Desktop > Power Management > ...
I use Kaffeine for TV and Normally VLC for dvd and films sotred on a NAS drive system settings >power managment>general settings let power devil manage screen powersaving not ticked ie off system settings>power managment >edit profiles enable display power managment not ticked ie off where else is there .. This is some that needs a major sortout all power managment should bi in one place with a choice of on or off i want off completely no power managment at all, I control that I can find nothing else to change
Generally, your media player should be able to "intercept" the monitor sleep/standby mode thing...
It always used to but not now , And i have just tried to log into a text console found it was in sleep mode and cant wake it up only usable in GUI mode not a good state of affairs. Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.5.5 (KDE 4.5.5) "release 1" 13:08 up 0:06, 4 users, load average: 0.15, 0.16, 0.09 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org