Re: How to get X Windows to stop blanking out

On 2008-07-21, phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx <phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:16:12 -0500 nobody <annonymous@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

| I'm running suse 11.0 w/kde4.1 beta & have the screensaver on BUT the
| "screensaver" never activates (had set the saver to display the torus)
| thingy. The monitor still "blanks"; & my monitor led power light shows
| yellow instead of green for "on". The yellow is displayed when the
| monitor is not getting a signal.
|
| Is this, then, a hardware triggered energy/power/screen saver applied
| by something?

Some number of minutes after mine blanks out, my monitor does the yellow light
thing. It doesn't get sync anymore. So I presume something turned it off.
The monitor has shutdown most of its circuitry, especially the backlight. So
it is saving energy.

But there are times when I want to have it stay on, such as when I have the
weather radar display full screen during stormy weather.


You didn't state what linux version or kde version.

With suse 11.0 & 4.1 rc1, I looked at the config desktop when selection the
icon on the taskbar that represented gecko(?); then on the config desktop
I selected hardware, display & a tab shows power control which then has
a button/bar for selecting kpowersave.

The kpowersave settings has performance, powersave, presentation & acoustic
selectable as a menu listing. Here is what I find confusing as only the
acoustic item doesn't have selectable timeout configurations. In powersave
there is standby @ 2 min, suspend @ 3 min & power off @ 5 min; BUT the
performance item has relative settings at 10, 20 30 minutes!

Also a default someplace say screen saver is not enabled & with the pointer
over a configurable item say that global dpms will be overridden by
kpowersave.......

It is getting more & more complicated & hopefully some doc is forthcoming.

good luck to you on trial & error to get what you want...... I just got
more white hairs.....
.