[CLUE-Tech] Sawfish questions

[Mike Staver]

Kurt Sturm wrote:
> 
> You can change the time limit that your monitor goes black in
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. The default is set to 10 minutes. You can
> change that setting to anything you wish. Hope I have been of some help.
> 
> On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 22:11, David Anselmi wrote:
> > Mike Staver wrote:
> > >
> > > 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?
> >
> > Look at modules.conf and the kernel boot params.  You shouldn't have to
> > rebuild your kernel, just figure out how to turn off the various
> > things.  If you're using modules, modules.conf lets you turn them off.
> > Otherwise look at the boot params howto.

Yeah, people keep saying this, but let me reiterate, this is not just in
X.  It is also at the console level before I even start X, so I don't
see how editing an X config file will help.  I'm getting insanely
frustrated with linux as a desktop at this point if I can't do something
as simple as adjust the black-out settings for my monitor.  In all of my
previous emails, I have tried everything except mess around with
modules.conf, which by the way looks like this:

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 3c59x
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias sound-slot-0 cs4232
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L
>/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S
>/dev/null 2>&1 || :
options sound dmabuf=1
alias synth0 opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
options cs4232 isapnp=1

I don't have a clue what any of this means, or even why there isn't a
simple command line utility that I have to adjust in one place, rather
than adjusting the setterm settings, and then trying to find where else
I need to do it as well.  I'm assuming that the first line is referring
to my parallel port, the second line my network card, the 3rd line my
USB, then sound card for the next 4.  I am unsure of what the last 3
lines are for.  
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                                -Mike Staver
                                 staver at fimble.com
                                 mstaver at globaltaxnetwork.com