Fred A. Miller wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
Fred A. Miller wrote:
Herbert Graeber wrote:
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I had this with the previous drivers, too. I have solved this by disabling some the first two DPMS modes and using the last on only. Looks like the first two are not working, but changing the size of the screensaver instead (BTW: Does that mean the 3D screen savers are still running when DPMS turns the screen dark?).
Yes....they still run in that small window. How, this MAY help you....hope so. In further testing, NOT all of the GL screen savers do this all of the time. Further, they MAY work properly when one starts up when it thinks the set time is up for it to run, but not run properly all of the time. The same can be said if you start one from the panel.
Also, the time set for a screen saver to start doesn't appear to work, no matter what time is set nor what screen saver is selected. I've turned off power management on this desktop, just to make sure it wasn't the cause of a screen saver coming starting too soon.
'Sure hope this helps.
Oh what a blessing it would be if someone could tell me how to stop oS 11.0 *AND* 11.1 in its KDE configuration - be it 3.x or 4.x - to **STOP** blanking my desktops' (VideoSonic) LCD screens!
Every option I have tried, but the screens are made black by some damn inferior application inbuilt by Novell into oS 11.0 and 11.1!
I agree!! For one thing, Power Saver should be an option....one that can be removed WITHOUT dependency issues! 'Last time I tried that, I had to leave it in.
The only way I've had any success is to it OFF and tell ALL levels to NOT run. It works.....some of the time.
After reading your comment re Powersaver I went into YaST2 Software Management to confirm what read to be the description of Powersave and found it to be what I read earlier: that it is to save battery power presumably when one is using a laptop. Because I do not have any laptops but only use desktop computers I had left Powersave installed -- but had uninstalled Powerdevil a while back. So, just to be sure, following your comment above, I uninstalled Powersave (using YaST2' Software Management) and rebooted the system. Had no problems with uninstalling Powersave - without dependency hassles at all. After rebooting..... all things great and small remain as before: the damn LCD blanks out after ~10 minutes. HOWEVER - and I noticed this earlier today after I had to do some shopping and before uninstalling Powersave - rather than simply blank (black) the screen the system actually was in LOCK SCREEN mode and I had to type in my password to access the system. This is a new development. A new feature of KDE4.2 perhaps? [pruned]
It is a "wonder," eh? ;)
The 9th Wonder of the World I feel. Ciao. -- "With the portion of mankind that is above average one may speak of higher things; with those below it, one may not." Confucius -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org