Monitor shutting off,


I have a Sony flat panel monitor (SDM-X52) attached to my SuSE Linux Server, and I have disabled the screen saver because I want the monitor up all the time. In a place I have yet to find, there must be a setting that will stop the OS from making my monitor go off. When I come back and hit the mouse it's back on, but within 15 minutes, it goes off again. I have looked in YaST under power management, but I didn't see anything that was obvious. Any help would greatly be appreaciated.



AceMan

in Suse you probably use KDE. In Control Centre look under section "power management"

SlackerLX,

I did that, but couldn't find anything that looked obvious. I had settings like "PowerSave, Acoustic, and Perfomance." I have set it to Performance, but still doesn't work.



AceMan

I do not use KDE myself but still remember that at the same section must be subsection, concerning Battery

I'll gladly use something else (Gnome?) if there is an easier way to accomplish this.



AceMan

As matter of fact, Gnome deals with this very handsomely
I always use Gnome
Gnome..........
APPLICATIONS->DESKTOP PREFERENCES->ADVANCED->SCREENSAVER
On the Screensaver Preferences display, go to "Advanced" tab and you'll find checkbox "Display Power Management"

Great will give that a try now.



AceMan

It may be the power settings in your BIOS that need adjusting, rather than anything in the OS or desktop environment. On my desktop machine, I can change the power settings in the BIOS at start-up time by pressing the "delete" key when prompted on the screen; some machines use the F2 key or some other key or combination of keys to get into the BIOS settings. Then under power management I can totally disable monitor and hard-drive power saving or set them to whatever value in minutes I want.

You probably already knew this, but I thought it worth mentioning anyway. (And some other reader may not know it!)

jonr!
I wanted to recommend that but considering that it's laptop, BIOS settings on Power Management are usually already set up

Aha! I think I missed seeing that it was a laptop. However, on my old Toshiba laptop I could change BIOS settings, so...

But anyway, I have no knowledge at all of newer laptops. I know they pose their own special hurdles with Linux. Thanks.

Strange! I still believe jonr has a point in checking the BIOS settings!
Meantime I checked german database on screen "SDM-X52" and it's registered as notebook LCD screen.
I'm actually puzzled here.

it's not a laptop, but just a LCD monitor. Also I checked in Gnome where you said and screensaver wasn't there. It was gnome 2.4 on this software.



AceMan

On 2.4 has probably different shortcuts. Find screensaver and it's on advanced tab