jvollmer@visi.com

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Hi all,

I am trying to move from Windows to SuSE and I'm seeing some things I was hoping someone could explain.

First, I am brand new to Linux -- only a few days now.

I'm running SuSE 8.2 Personal w/KDE. My machine is new and it's ACPI compliant.

I'm finding that if left alone for a while (I don't know exactly how long), the machine seems to power itself down automatically. I'm trying to

No, it's not the monitor, it's the entire machine...and the BIOS setting are fine. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Vollmer" <jvollmer@visi.com> To: "Tony LaPaso" <tlapaso@comcast.net> Cc: <suse-kde@suse.com>; <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] ?? NEWBIE QUESTIONS: Auto Power Down and Mouse Cursor Size?? prevent

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this behavior.

I have gone into "Control Center | Power Control | Display Power Control" and I made sure that all three options ("Standby after", "Suspend after" and "Power off after") were disabled. I even tried clearing the "Enable display power management" checkbox but nothing seems to help. The machine always seems to power down on its own.

The second question I wanted to ask is, how can I make my mouse cursor larger? There is an option, in the "Control Center", I believe, for "Peripherals | Mouse | General | Large Cursor" but that seems to have no effect. The cursor is always small, even after re-boot.

If anyone can offer some suggestions I would be very grateful.

If you're trying to avoid having the monitor power-down, edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config file and remove the line that reads:

option "DPMS"

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