Re: How to get X Windows to stop blanking out

On 18 Jul 2008 15:08:46 GMT Niklaus Kuehnis <kuehnik_0505@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:
|> On 18 Jul 2008 10:38:34 GMT Bob Tennent <BobT@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|> | On 18 Jul 2008 06:01:55 GMT, phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:
|> | > On 17 Jul 2008 13:33:29 GMT Niklaus Kuehnis <kuehnik_0505@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|> | > wrote:
|> | >| phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:
|> | >
|> | > And it still has no effect. Any other ideas to try?
|> |
|> | Is KDE or GNOME responsible for the "blanking"?
|
|> I doubt it. It happens without them as a desktop environment. I'm using fvwm.
|> But I could try KDE for a while.
|
| Is any screensaver running?
| Do you have acpid running? If so, does it still happen after you kill

There is no screensaver running. I managed to disable that long ago. I now
just goes blank.

There is a kernel "[kacpid]" running which cannot be killed as far as I know.
Is this the cuprit?

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