<br><br><b><i>BRUCE STANLEY <bruce.stanley@prodigy.net></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br><br><b><i>Dale <teendale@vista-express.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> BRUCE STANLEY wrote:<br>><br>><br>> */Dale <teendale @vista-express.com="">/* wrote:<br>><br>> BRUCE STANLEY wrote:<br>> > Hi!<br>> ><br>> > I'm using Suse Linux 10.0 with KDE 3.4.2 and<br>> > I am having a minor problem with the kde screen saver.<br>> ><br>> > After about 7 minutes the monitor will blank out even though<br>> > I have the monitor power control turned off (contorl center --><br>> > peripherals ---> Display.....).<br>> > I noticed that with this turned off, the kpowersave program
is still<br>> > running.<br>> > I have tried turning power control on and setting to an hour or so<br>> > before allowing<br>> > it to blank the monitor off, but it still does it in about 7<br>> minutes.<br>> ><br>> > This is a home system using an ABIT KT7A-RAID mother board<br>> > with an ATI 9200 SE vidio card, and an A70F ViewSonic monitor<br>> (analog<br>> > only).<br>> ><br>> > I have played with some of the bois settings, but it does not<br>> seem to make<br>> > andy difference. The manual says that ACPI is always available<br>> on this<br>> > mother board.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > I poseted this problem on the Suse E-mail List and only got this<br>> work<br>> > around from another user:<br>> ><br>> > Turn the Monitor Power Control function on with all of
the<br>> > sliders<br>> > to the disable (full left) position.<br>> ><br>> > This does indeed work with no power save capability, but only<br>> during that<br>> > Log in session. If I log out and back in, I have to do this step all<br>> > over again.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > How do I get the power control to honor the settings (1 hour lets<br>> > say) that<br>> > I set up in it?<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> ><br>> > ___________________________________________________<br>> > This message is from the kde-linux mailing list.<br>> > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux.<br>> > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.<br>> > More info:
http://www.kde.org/faq.html.<br>><br>> Check your xorg.conf file and remove the Option DPMS line. That should<br>> disable the module that turns the monitor off. Keep in mine that xorg<br>> will control the monitor even if KDE says different. KDE runs on<br>> top of<br>> Xorg and loads first.<br>><br>> Hope that helps.<br>><br>> Dale<br>> :-) :-)<br>><br>> Funny, you want yours to stay on and I want mine to turn off so I am<br>> about to add what you are wanting to remove. ;-)<br>><br>><br>><br>> Hi Dale!<br>> I tried removing the 'DPMS' line in the xorg.conf file (and then<br>> rebooting) but it did not help.<br>> It did add some new behavior though. Sometimes the screen saver will<br>> just stop leaving the last image (in this case Matrix characters) on the<br>> screen dead in its tracks. Moving the mouse reactivates KDE as normal.<br>> But most of the time
the screen stil just blanks after about 7 minutes<br>> or so.<br>><br>> Is there anythig else to try? <br><br>Well, Xorg seems to have made some changes. I'm having trouble getting<br>mine to turn off like I want it too. I'm not sure. This may require<br>some research. I'm also having trouble with my OpenGL screen savers.<br><br>Dale<br>:-) :-)<br></teendale></blockquote><br> Hi Dale!<br> I am going to try a workaround that I had to use with KDE 3.3.x and Centos 4.1.<br> The KDE screen savers did not work in that release either. I was hoping that<br> they would have fixed this by now.<br> <br> The workaround involves turning the KDE screen saver off and running xscreensaver<br> in its place.<br> <br> Here is the workaround if you want to try it.<br> <br> Disable KDE screensaver.<br> <br> Create a desktop file in you ~/.kde/Autostart
directory with the<br> following entries:<br> <br> [Desktop Entry]<br> Exec=xscreensaver<br> Name=XScreensaver<br> Type=Application<br> X-KDE-StartupNotify=false<br> <br> Name it xscreensaver.desktop (on something similar).<br> <br> You can then run xscreensaver-demo to configure your settings.<br> <br> <br>
Haven't tried this yet under Suse, but its worth a shot........<br> <br> <br></blockquote><br>Well the xscreensaver workaround does not work as well under Suse 10.0<br>as it does in Centos 4.1 (REHL 4). It does work better than the KDE screen<br>saver, but I have to demo/test the screen saver I want to use, then it seems<br>to work ok....<br><br><br>