Re: How to get X Windows to stop blanking out

On 21 Jul 2008 17:50:06 GMT Bob Tennent <BobT@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| On 21 Jul 2008 14:13:40 GMT, phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:
|
| > The system starst in text mode. I run a command to start X. X is
| > configured to start xdm. I login on the xdm box. Then xdm starts a
| > user login script that launches fvwm (and other stuff, then execs
| > xlogo so it does not return to xdm unless I specifically kill xlogo).
| > This is not a KDE/Gnome environment.
|
| Is it a laptop? Try running gnome-power-preferences and changing the
| setting for "Put display to sleep when inactive for ...".

No. It is a desktop. The video card is Matrox G450 AGP.

=============================================================================
pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x102b device 0x0525
Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400/G450
=============================================================================
X Window System Version 1.3.0
Release Date: 19 April 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
Build Operating System: Slackware 12.0 Slackware Linux Project
Current Operating System: Linux faraday.ipal.net 2.6.25.10 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jul 6 00:57:32 CDT 2008 i686
Build Date: 09 May 2007
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
=============================================================================

Here are a bunch of logs: http://phil.ipal.org/usenet/colx/2008-07-21/

Note that I am running 3 instances of X at the same time. Maybe that is
causing a problem?

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