Re: Energy saver problem

From: David Wright (david_c_wright_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:44:10 +0100

Bill wrote:

> 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

Nope, 2 of the machines dual-boot into Windows and don't show this problem.
Also viewing videos disables the screen stand-by. KDE/X just seem to ignore
the settings and puts the monitor in stand-by after 10 minutes or so...

Dave

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