Re: KDE, Dell, and XFree crashes

[Emma Jane Hogbin <emmajane@xtrinsic.com>]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:36:46AM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2003-07-01, 00:53 GMT, xuare wrote:
> > Right about the time the "Peripherals" Icon has been up a few moments in
> > the KDE bootup image X dies without much in the way of a server error
> > (Caught signal 11...that's about it)
> 
> I've got the same problem with Dell with woody -- what helped was to
> switch off DPMS in Monitor section (Option "DPMS" "false" in active
> Monitor section in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4).

See also: man xset

-dpms   The -dpms option disables DPMS (Energy Star) features.

       +dpms   The +dpms option enables DPMS (Energy Star) features.

       dpms flags...
               The dpms option allows the DPMS (Energy Star) parameters to  be  set.   The
               option  can take up to three numerical values, or the `force' flag followed
               by a DPMS state.  The `force' flags forces the server to immediately switch
               to the DPMS state specified.  The DPMS state can be one of `standby', `sus­
               pend', `off', or `on'.  When numerical values are given, they set the inac­
               tivity  period  (in units of seconds) before the three modes are activated.
               The first value given is for the `standby' mode,  the  second  is  for  the
               `suspend'  mode, and the third is for the `off' mode.  Setting these values
               implicitly enables the DPMS features.  A value of zero disables a  particu­
               lar mode.


I've done:
	xset -dpms 
to turn off all energy saving stuff.

emma

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