Dale <teendale (AT) vista-express (DOT) comwrote: BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
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BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
Hi!
I'm using Suse Linux 10.0 with KDE 3.4.2 and
I am having a minor problem with the kde screen saver.
After about 7 minutes the monitor will blank out even though
I have the monitor power control turned off (contorl center
peripherals Display).
I noticed that with this turned off, the kpowersave program is still
running.
I have tried turning power control on and setting to an hour or so
before allowing
it to blank the monitor off, but it still does it in about 7
minutes.
This is a home system using an ABIT KT7A-RAID mother board
with an ATI 9200 SE vidio card, and an A70F ViewSonic monitor
(analog
only).
I have played with some of the bois settings, but it does not
seem to make
andy difference. The manual says that ACPI is always available
on this
mother board.
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I poseted this problem on the Suse E-mail List and only got this
work
around from another user:
Turn the Monitor Power Control function on with all of the
sliders
to the disable (full left) position.
This does indeed work with no power save capability, but only
during that
Log in session. If I log out and back in, I have to do this step all
over again.
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How do I get the power control to honor the settings (1 hour lets
say) that
I set up in it?
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Check your xorg.conf file and remove the DPMS line. That should
disable the module that turns the monitor off. Keep in mine that xorg
will control the monitor even if KDE says different. KDE runs on
top of
Xorg and loads first.
Hope that helps.
Dale
:-) :-)
Funny, you want yours to stay on and I want mine to turn off so I am
about to add what you are wanting to remove. ;-)
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Hi Dale!
I tried removing the 'DPMS' line in the xorg.conf file (and then
rebooting) but it did not help.
It did add some new behavior though. Sometimes the screen saver will
just stop leaving the last image (in this case Matrix characters) on the
screen dead in its tracks. Moving the mouse reactivates KDE as normal.
But most of the time the screen stil just blanks after about 7 minutes
or so.
Is there anythig else to try?
Well, Xorg seems to have made some changes. I'm having trouble getting
mine to turn off like I want it too. I'm not sure. This may require
some research. I'm also having trouble with my GL screen savers.
Dale
:-) :-)
Hi Dale!
I am going to try a workaround that I had to use with KDE 3.3.x and Centos 4.1.
The KDE screen savers did not work in that release either. I was hoping that
they would have fixed this by now.
The workaround involves turning the KDE screen saver off and running xscreensaver
in its place.
Here is the workaround if you want to try it.
Disable KDE screensaver.
Create a desktop file in you ~/.kde/Autostart directory with the
following entries:
[Desktop Entry]
Exec=xscreensaver
Name=XScreensaver
Type=Application
X-KDE-StartupNotify=false
Name it xscreensaver.desktop (on something similar).
You can then run xscreensaver-demo to configure your settings.
Haven't tried this yet under Suse, but its worth a shot
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