X wants to sleep
hi all, I have, since I upgraded to a 2.4 kernel, a very annoying problem. When I'm using X, after some time (sometimes it takes a few hours, sometimes only half an hour) my screen suddenly blanks and if I don't move the mouse or hit some keys my screen powers off a few seconds later. I have to keep moving my mouse, until I have saved all open documents and closed everything, then I shut down X. The problem doesn't go away until I reboot. I've had this problem using different drivers (both nv and nvidia) and using different windowmanagers (WindowMaker and KDE2). I have a TNT2 video card and the 2.4.4 kernel from mantel's directory. I use XFree 4.0.2. I hope the problem goes away with X 4.1.0, which I am compiling right now, but my guess is that it's something kerne based. Is there anybody else out there who has experienced such problems or could anybody give me a hint on what might be wrong here? tia, -- dieter
dieter wrote:
hi all,
I have, since I upgraded to a 2.4 kernel, a very annoying problem. When I'm using X, after some time (sometimes it takes a few hours, sometimes only half an hour) my screen suddenly blanks and if I don't move the mouse
Try turning off power management, or at least the power saving for the display, in your bios. -- Joe & Sesil Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris "All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
** Reply to message from dieter <dieter@FreeBSD.rave.org> on Sun, 3 Jun 2001 22:42:28 +0200 (CEST) If you are running kde2, use control center>power control>energy and uncheck "enable display energy saving". Otherwise, if you are running X4.x.x, check /etc/X11/XFConfig, in Section "Monitor" for Option "dpms" AND Section "ServerLayout" for Option "BlankTime" Option "StandbyTime" and Option "OffTime". Ed Harrison broadcasting on ----/ / _ ---/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / -/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ by SuSE(6.4), Kernel 2.4.4, X 4.0.3 or Warp 4, FP12 or Windows98 (running in vmware 2.0.4 for fun) PolarBarMailer 1.1.19a with SUN JDK 1.3
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