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Re: gdm restarts every 20 minutes: why?



* J. H. M. Dassen (fsmla@xinara.org)[20040305 04:19]:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:48:11 -0800, Nick Jacobs wrote:
> > If there is no user activity, gdm restarts every 20 minutes, killing the
> > current local session.
>
> > I'm not running a screensaver.
>
> Sounds like your X server has DPMS (Energy Star) enabled but crashes on it.
> Check with "xset q" and try if disabling it using "xset -dpms" helps.

If this does fix it, you can disable it permanently by
removing 'Option "DPMS"' from the Monitor section of your
XF86Config-4.

good times,
Vineet

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