RE: X crashes if I'm idle
Thank you for your quick reply....
> Incoming from Doyle, Patrick:
> > I found this thread in the archives, and I am experiencing the same
> > behavior (on my Compaq Presario 2100 with a stock "woody" bf2.4
> > install). I have also seen that I cannot run KDE -- it
> > simply crashes during startup. From everything I've read, I
> > probably need to upgrade to Xfree86 4.3 in order to make these
> > problems go away, but I have some questions first.
> >
> > 1) In the short term (I need to get work done _today_ and
> > can't spend the day upgrading X), how can I turn off the
> > screensaver? I don't see any menu
>
> I don't use kde, but doesn't a right-click on the background
> bring up anything useful?
>
Sadly no, this is why I am so confused. I just can't find the right knob to
turn to shut the darn thing off. In the mean time, I have rerun the debian
configuration utility and told the X server not to use the frame buffer
interface, since the notes said that, sometimes things work better with that
off, and sometimes they work better with it on. I am still waiting to see
what happens when/if the screensaver kicks in. (And am using the computer
in the mean time, so I can't just wait for it, and don't know how to
configure it to change the timeout to something like 30 seconds, sigh...
It's hard being me :-)
> > 2) In the long term, is there a .deb package I can grab to
> > perform the upgrade to 4.3 more easily than downloading
> > 12 different files from xfree86.org?
>
> Have you looked in backports? I see 4.2 in
> http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/woody/xfree86/binary-i38
6/
Thanks... That looks like a good resource to know about. I am new to Debian
(though not new to Linux) and am still trying to learn what resources are
available.
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