Re: Energy saver problem

From: Bill (spamtrap_at_tinlc.lumbercartel.com)
Date: 11/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:21:57 -0800

In article <dkuucq$nkf$00$1@news.t-online.com>,
david_c_wright@hotmail.com says...
> OK, this is beginning to annoy me.
>
> In the control centre, I've set-up the screen-saver to kick in after 45
> minutes, the energy saving to kick in after 1 hour to stand-by and afer
> about 90-minutes for the stand-by and 100 minutes for suspend.
>
> I have the screen saver set to cut in after 45 minutes - I work on two
> machines a lot, so it is useful to have information displayed on one
> monitor while working on another.
>
> The problem is, with these settings, it puts the monitors into standby mode
> after about 5-10 minutes. If I switch off the energy controls, it still
> turns them off after 5-10 minutes!
>
> Have I missed something somewhere in the settings? (I did some googling, but
> couldn't find anything useful searching for linux screensaver standby,
> gives the problem the other way round - monitor won't go into standby
> mode.)
>
> This is happening on both my nVidia machines and my ATi based laptop.
>
> Dave
>

 Have you checked the bios settings for the motherboards? You might
check and see if the displays are using their own power savings
settings.

                Bill

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