[CLUE-Tech] Sawfish questions
Mike Staver
staver at fimble.com
Thu May 23 10:46:58 MDT 2002
Joe Brockmeier wrote:
>
> Mike Staver wrote:
>
> *snip*
>
> > 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.
>
> The final three are for your sound card as well.
>
> I did a quick search on Google for "screen blanking Linux" and got this:
> http://www.patoche.org/LTT/screen/00000088.html
>
> setterm and xset may be the culprits - I don't recall if anyone else
> suggested them.
>
> Also, and you may not like this, it may be enabled through the kernel
> using apm. Usually this option is for laptops, but it should work for a
> desktop with a MB that supports APM. If "Enable Console Blanking using
> APM" is set, it might be the culprit.
>
> I assume you've checked your BIOS settings and it's not your BIOS that
> is blanking the screen instead of something in Linux. IIRC some
> motherboards have power-saving features that might be doing this.
>
> Finally - your frustration with "Linux" is misplaced. Whichever distro
> you're using is responsible for setting this up - this is no different
> from Microsoft setting a user default in Windows that you don't like
> that's not obvious how to turn off - if you can. I've used every "major"
> distro, and this isn't endemic to Linux. Only one or two distros
> automatically set up screen blanking, that I recall. I've run into many,
> many defaults with MS and Apple OSes that are annoying and hard to track
> down - it's hardly unique to Linux.
Yes, I have turned off everything relating to power management in my
bios, so that can't be the problem. And I will try the xset option as
well, but from the url you provided, it looks to me like this is also an
X thing. About APM, I really don't think it's running from my process
listing here:
[staver at tweek staver]$ ps -auwx
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.1 1368 476 ? S May20 0:04 init
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW May20 0:00 [keventd]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN May20 0:00
[ksoftirqd_CPU0]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW May20 0:00 [kswapd]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW May20 0:00 [bdflush]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW May20 0:00
[kupdated]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW May20 0:00
[mdrecoveryd]
root 11 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW May20 0:00
[kjournald]
root 90 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW May20 0:00 [khubd]
root 195 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW May20 0:00
[kjournald]
root 533 0.0 0.2 1428 560 ? S May20 0:00 syslogd
-m 0
root 538 0.0 0.1 1364 444 ? S May20 0:00 klogd -x
rpc 558 0.0 0.2 1512 552 ? S May20 0:00 portmap
rpcuser 586 0.0 0.2 1560 720 ? S May20 0:00 rpc.statd
root 746 0.0 0.3 2200 948 ? S May20 0:00 xinetd
-stayalive -reuse -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
root 787 0.0 0.7 4600 1816 ? S May20 0:00 sendmail:
accepting connections
root 806 0.0 0.1 1400 452 ? S May20 0:00 gpm -t
ps/2 -m /dev/mouse
root 824 0.0 0.2 1536 616 ? S May20 0:00 crond
xfs 878 0.0 1.5 5292 4084 ? S May20 0:01 xfs
-droppriv -daemon
daemon 914 0.0 0.2 1404 524 ? S May20 0:00
/usr/sbin/atd
root 938 0.0 0.4 2272 1032 ? S May20 0:00 login --
hawkbug
root 939 0.0 0.1 1344 400 tty2 S May20 0:00
/sbin/mingetty tty2
root 940 0.0 0.1 1344 400 tty3 S May20 0:00
/sbin/mingetty tty3
root 941 0.0 0.1 1344 400 tty4 S May20 0:00
/sbin/mingetty tty4
root 942 0.0 0.1 1344 400 tty5 S May20 0:00
/sbin/mingetty tty5
root 943 0.0 0.1 1344 400 tty6 S May20 0:00
/sbin/mingetty tty6
root 946 0.0 0.5 2464 1312 tty1 S May20 0:00 -bash
root 2150 0.0 0.4 2624 1236 ? S 03:23 0:00
/usr/sbin/sshd
root 2154 0.0 0.7 3504 1992 ? S 03:24 0:00
/usr/sbin/sshd
staver 2155 0.0 0.4 2440 1276 pts/0 S 03:24 0:00 -bash
root 2192 0.0 0.3 2232 1016 tty1 S 03:28 0:00 /bin/sh
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx
root 2203 0.0 0.2 2276 608 tty1 S 03:28 0:00 xinit
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc --
root 2204 0.0 2.6 17008 6672 ? S< 03:28 0:01 X :0
root 2209 0.0 1.5 7252 3964 tty1 S 03:28 0:01
/usr/bin/gnome-session
root 2222 0.0 0.7 6100 1920 ? S 03:28 0:00
gnome-smproxy --sm-config-prefix /.gnome-smproxy-S9bSoX/ --sm-client-
root 2240 0.0 1.2 5560 3148 ? S 03:28 0:00 sawfish
--sm-client-id 117f000001000102162900400000221390002 --sm-pre
root 2247 0.0 5.3 33200 13660 ? S 03:28 0:02 nautilus
--sm-client-id 117f000001000102162900500000221390009 --no-de
root 2249 0.0 1.2 7056 3124 ? S 03:28 0:00 magicdev
--sm-client-id 117f000001000102162900400000221390007
root 2251 0.0 0.4 3076 1176 ? S 03:28 0:00
gnome-name-service
root 2253 0.0 0.6 3144 1572 ? S 03:28 0:00
/usr/bin/gconfd-1 10
root 2256 0.0 1.0 4292 2700 ? S 03:28 0:00 oafd
--ac-activate --ior-output-fd=14
root 2262 0.0 0.3 2084 932 ? S 03:29 0:00 fam
root 2263 0.0 5.3 33200 13660 ? S 03:29 0:00 nautilus
--sm-client-id 117f000001000102162900500000221390009 --no-de
root 2264 0.0 5.3 33200 13660 ? S 03:29 0:00 nautilus
--sm-client-id 117f000001000102162900500000221390009 --no-de
root 2265 0.0 5.3 33200 13660 ? S 03:29 0:00 nautilus
--sm-client-id 117f000001000102162900500000221390009 --no-de
root 2266 0.0 5.3 33200 13660 ? S 03:29 0:00 nautilus
--sm-client-id 117f000001000102162900500000221390009 --no-de
root 2267 0.0 5.3 33200 13660 ? S 03:29 0:00 nautilus
--sm-client-id 117f000001000102162900500000221390009 --no-de
root 2268 0.0 5.3 33200 13660 ? S 03:29 0:00 nautilus
--sm-client-id 117f000001000102162900500000221390009 --no-de
staver 2632 0.0 0.2 2712 752 pts/0 R 04:21 0:00 ps -auwx
So, I'm about to give up here yet again. Oh, and I'm using Red Hat 7.3,
and it's not specific to any version of Red Hat really, just every
version I can ever remember using back to 6.0 I think. So, if this is
kernel level, it came with the default 2.4.18-X kernel supplied by Red
Hat, and I don't know where to begin with shutting it down if it's in
there. Since we bought Red Hat 7.3 professional, and 7.1 professional
for that matter, I think I'm entitiled to some phone support with them,
so I'm going to give them a quick call. Oh, and I'm not putting down
linux specifically when I say I'm extremely frustrated with it, because
I love linux and use it everday, and that won't change. I just don't
understand why configuring linux has to be done in so many different
places and ways. It seems to me that it could be simplified.
--
-Mike Staver
staver at fimble.com
mstaver at globaltaxnetwork.com
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