Re: How to get X Windows to stop blanking out

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:50:23 -0500 nobody <annonymous@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
| 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.

Linux 2.6.25.10. Xorg 1.3.0. No KDE or Gnome.

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