Video shut off by power manager, but how?
 

I just installed SuSE Professional 9.0, and I have an annoying problem: After 10 minutes of inactivity, my video is shut off by some kind of power management software. I have acpi=off set in the Boot Loader, and APM is not installed. I don't see anything in the BIOS that has anything to do with power management.

Am I missing something? :confused:

Thanks,
Aaron

XFree checks whether your card supports DPMS,
and does it by itself. Have a closed look at the
Section "ServerFlags"
of /etc/X11/XF86Config

man XF86Config
for details :}

Or happy googling.


Cheers,
Tink

Hi,

Try running "xset -dpms" at a shell prompt and see if that helps.

thanks

with regards
-DJ

Modifying XF86Config did not work even after rebooting.

The xset command worked but doesn't survive a reboot. Any idea how to make it stick? Can I make xhost stick the same way?

-Aaron

Worked for me ... odd.

What/how did you do it?


Cheers,
Tink

In the XF86Config file, look for the "Graphics Device Section" and then under that look for this.

Take out the line

or put a # in front of it. That should disable that feature. I say that because mine would not cut off in Gentoo untill I added that line to the XF86Config file. That should work.

I hope.

:D :D :D