Monitor turns off after few minutes and I have to reboot

riba43 · 11-04-2010, 04:44 AM

Hi ,

I have a disturbing problem with my monitor which goes to sleep (or ??) after few minutes if my comp is not used and most of the time I have to restart my comp.I disabled everything in Powersave , but nothing. I did have that problem in previous versions of SUSE, but somehow, I solved that. I cant remember what I did then. Any help is welcome.

bathory · 11-04-2010, 05:59 AM

Maybe:

Code:

xset -dpms s off

riba43 · 11-04-2010, 09:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

Maybe:

Code:

xset -dpms s off

Thanks bathory. It seems that code is the right one. It works. Thanks again.

riba43 · 11-05-2010, 03:23 AM

Hi,
Can you tell me where should I put this code, because I have to do this everytime I restart the computer.

Thanks

bathory · 11-05-2010, 03:54 AM

Hi,

I don't use KDE (I guess you do as you're running Suse), so after a little searching, it looks like you have to create a script in ~/.kde/Autostart (or ~/.kde4/Autostart depending on KDE version) directory:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/xset -dpms s off

Just make sure the path to xset is correct.
Then make the script executable

Code:

chmod +x ~/.kde/Autostart/script.sh

If it doesn't work take a look here for more details.

Regards

femkumar · 06-08-2012, 10:48 AM

Hi,

I come across the same problem that the user has mentioned here but the code which you suggested did not work for me. I am new person to linux. I have installed OpenSUSE11.4 on a 64bit computer and I am running KDE desktop version. My monitor keeps on turning off for every few minutes.

Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks
Kumar

femkumar · 06-08-2012, 01:26 PM

Hi,

Please disregard my previous post. The above code "xset -dpms s off" did not work for the first time. But from the second time, it started working.

Thanks
Kumar

wagscat123 · 06-14-2012, 09:05 AM

openSUSE 11.3 has been EOL'd and Evergreen won't support it. Though, Evergreen will support 11.4 for a few years. You might want to upgrade to 11.4.