On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 12:46:26PM -0500, Jim Crumley wrote: > > I've got an annoying problem with my new box at work. Its a > Compaq Evo with a new integrated video card on an Intel 845g > chipset. The chipset isn't supported natively by XFree, so I am > using the VESA driver. It works OK except that if I switch to a > virtual terminal, logout of my X session, or the screen blanks > due to inactivity, the xserver hangs. After it hangs, all I can > get at vt7 is a blank screen. If I try to restart, it hangs > immediately. So to get X to come back, I am forced to reboot. > > I submitted a bug on this and its been forwarded upstream, and I > can deal with not changing virtual terminals or logging out of X. > My problem is that I haven't been able to stop the automatic > screen blanking. I thought that there should be an option > somewhere in the BIOS, but the only option I see are for the > stopping the hard drive and putting the whole computer in sleep > mode. I tried setting the time limit on both of those to > infinite, but that didn't help. So my question is, is there > anywhere that this kind of stuff is taken care of in software? I > looked around for a relevant X or apmd option, but I haven't had > any luck. Look in /etc/X11/XF86Config under the Monitor section. There is a line Option "DPMS" try commenting it out or adding a "0"/"Off" on that line. florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020905/4bd56a5b/attachment.pgp