ot: Not a Seq Problem but i can't find any other settings....

[dragonne]

Okay .. i finally bit the bullet and reinstalled my linux box.. it wouldn't take RH9 for some reason.. it kept hanging on installing the aic7xxx driver for my 2940UW scsi controller.. 8 worked but with the new requirements for SEQ coming down the pike i wanted to install an OS that would work out of the box.. I'm not into compiling kernels, or updating QT's and crap like that I simply don't have the time.

so I said screw it and grabbed a copy of fedora after spending about a week trying to get RH9 to work with that stupid controller.. fedora loaded up pefectly. installed without a hitch. cvs'd a new copy of SEQ5 compiled without a hitch and runs flawlessly.. the docking drives me a little batty at time but i can live with that..

whats pissing me off is the screen going blank every 5 minutes and when i hit the keyboard to bring it back (the mouse won;t wake it up) seq has basically stopped updating.. i can however go to network --> set device click okay and it will start updating me and maybe a few mobs here and there. If i zone it works great again until i forget to move the mouse again and it blanks out again.

so i've gone everywhere i can think of on this damned box turned off every reference to a screensaver i can find and can't find anything about power saving for the most part and I am simply at a loss as to how to just keep it from blanking out on me.. I was getting a screensaver for a while then of course i turned it of and don't get a screensaver.. its almost like a power saving thing.. i don't have any internal power saving things turned on in the PC's bios so again I am at a complete loss.

I am guessing there is some text file somewhere with a line in it i need to change or delete.

Thanks for any help.

[who_me_use_seq]

# man xset

[dragonne]

alright we'll see what happens after doing xset -dpms, woulda thought that would have the same effect as unchecking the box and/or having the 3 sliders all the way to the left in the display settings..

[dragonne]

well... apparently that fixed it.. 15 minutes hasn't blanked out.. thanks for the assist.. even with the fancy gui's i guess the basics still need to be done from a cmdline.

[dragonne]

guess i spoke to soon it just blanked out after 20 minutes.. now the monitor light is staying green during this. so apparently it thinks a setting of none for a screen saver just means blanks the screen..

[Cryonic]

or apm thinks that since you haven't touched the mouse or keyboard in 20 minutes to turn off the video out to preserve the monitor from getting a burned in image....

[dragonne]

If the monitor actually starting blinking the yellow light at me instead of saying solid green i might go with that.. but since I have all the power management stuff i can find disabled both hardware wise and O/S wise and as far as i know all screen saver settings turned off. i have no idea.

[who_me_use_seq]

Add

xset s off

and possibly

xset s noblank

Which jewels of wisdom I found by using -------wait for it----






The SEARCH button

And in case you are wondering what arcane and complex search string turned up this information it was "xset"

[dragonne]

Well considering I had never even HEARD of xset until your first post about it, it would be rather difficult to search on a command i didn't even know existed...

and i guess I wouldn't have expected to do a search for it on a SEQ forum and turn up anything useful. Since these are the only forums i read with any regularity.. well at ALL actually that have anything lnux related on them, i figured someone would have the answer and would be able to point me in the right direction.. i read the man page for xset and found the dpms option.. i didn't see the other options. My bad if I missed them.

My apologies for wasting your time.

[dragonne]

Since i was curious i did do a search on these forums for xset, didn't turn up much so i was like wtf.. then i told it to not care when the article was posted and found fryfrogs and a crapload of others posted from 2002.

Again my apologies. I made a rather large and apprently wrong assumption that I would be able to control all of these settings through the gui..

in any case.

xset -dpms
xset s off
xset s noblank

have no effect.. screen went blank as i was typing this.

[Dedpoet]

Have you checked your BIOS for power save settings? Those will over-ride the OS settings if they are enabled.

[dragonne]

nope no power saving turned on in the bios. monitor stays in full power mode.

even tried the xset s 0 0 0

before the xset -dpms like fryfrog did in his post.

[Zycor]

This works for me, give it a try

xset -dpms s off

[Cheshire_Dragon]

I didn't bother reading through most of this thread but, I have the same SCSI card and had the same issue. Go and update the bios on the Adaptec card. After I did that I have had no problems since and it was a smooth install of RH 9. This may save you from an aneurism I see coming from the stress you are running through right now. Should only take about 10min to do and will save you lots of trouble later on.

[Cryonic]

Good advice. Hopefully the original poster found a solution that works since the thread is over 4 months old.