[CLUE-Tech] Sawfish questions

[Mike Staver]

Thanks for the info, I have run those setterm commands, and I thought 
they worked - but then 10 minutes later, my monitor goes black again, 
damn it.  Also, power management is off in the bios.  So, my last shot 
seems to be to disable this thing in the kernel.  How do I do that?

David Anselmi wrote:

>Mike Staver wrote:
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>>Well, I'd just like to restress that this isn't just an X thing - it
>>happens when my box is just at the console login, so I don't think
>>editing the Xconfig settings will help, am I right?  I thought it would
>>be the apmd service, but that apparently isn't it.  As far as my screen
>>saver goes, I do think the app used to display them is fairly buggy, but
>>it works for me - when I can tell it's running before my monitor goes
>>black that is.  I really wish I knew how to make it stop doing that....
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>Here are some things to try:
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>run setterm -blank 0
>run setterm -powersave off
>disable BIOS power management
>disable APM support in kernel
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>There might be an acpi=off argument to pass to the kernel as well (or disable
>acpi support in the kernel).  I'd try them in that order, as disabling kernel
>things might disable stuff you want - like the machine turns itself off on
>shutdown.  Also the two setterm commands can go in your boot scripts once you
>know how they work.
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>I seem to remember the kernel being the thing controlling screen blanking in
>console mode but I don't see anything but the above offhand.
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>Dave
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