[kde-linux] Monitor power control by KDM

[Dale]

Dale wrote:
> Peter Humphrey wrote:
>   
>> This box runs 24 hours a day, except for those times when it's too noisy to 
>> leave running overnight, and it has an LCD screen which I'm happy to switch 
>> off when I'm not using it. Therefore I neither need nor want screen 
>> blanking or "saving" of any kind. I've managed to get KDE not to interfere 
>> once it's running, but if I start the system up from cold and am then 
>> distracted before logging in via KDM, by the time I get back I have a dead 
>> screen, and the only way out is a hard reset. When I did that this morning, 
>> during the boot-up reiserfsck found over 700 outstanding disk transactions. 
>> That makes me nervous.
>>
>> How do I prevent KDM from blanking my screen? I already have APM disabled in 
>> the kernel config.
>>
>> Thanks for any help you can offer.
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> I think if you remove the dpms option from xorg.conf that it will
> disable the power off feature.  I know before I had that in my xorg.conf
> file, my monitor would stay on.
>
> May be worth checking on.  I would be wondering why it does that
> though.  There may be more to it than just dpms.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)
>
>   

Oh, you may want to check xset too.  I forgot about it.

Dale

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