Gil - You were spot on. I thought I had set the screensaver but I re-set it just to be sure thanks to your suggestion and now everything is OK. Thanks to you and thanks to Arun K Khan and James Knott for taking the trouble to help with the problem. I've had some bad experiences with acpi in the past - the screen blanking off and then never coming back on or taking an age to come back on - so I was quick to blame the problem on that rather than look for the simplest explanation. Thanks again. Best wishes - Ken On Saturday 20 August 2005 13:17, Gil Weber wrote:
** Reply to message from Kenneth Payne
on Sat, 20 Aug 2005 11:36:14 +0100 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
Ken, I am a neophyte at Linux, so I always look for the simplest -- sometimes silliest -- reasons for problems. By chance is your screen-saver set to "blank screen" at approx. 10 minutes? If it were so set the screen would go blank and restore under exactly the conditions you describe.
Forgive me if you've already checked into this, but I offer it only as a possibility. :o) Gil