On June 17, 2007 09:11:27 pm Nigel Henry wrote: > On Monday 18 June 2007 00:34, Stephen Cormier wrote: > > On June 17, 2007 04:58:48 pm Nigel Henry wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 16:39:40 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > > > I'd commented out the "options DPMS" line in my xorg.conf, so that > > > > > the monitor wouldn't keep going into standby mode every 30mins or > > > > > so, and up to last nights updates, (including a load of X stuff) > > > > > this had been working ok. > > > > > > > > > > This morning after installing all the updates, I rebooted the > > > > > machine, just to make sure everything was still ok with Lenny, and > > > > > now I find that the monitor is again going into standby after some > > > > > 30mins or so. The "options DPMS" line is still commented out, but > > > > > appears to be being ignored. > > > > > > Any suggestions welcome. > > > > > > Nigel. > > > > You can always use xset -dpms to turn it off in a console/console window > > for the rest of your problem I have no ideas. > > > > Stephen > > Thanks Stephen. That appears to have resolved the problem. Which file has > xset -dpms made changes to? > > Nigel. > > btw. Thanks for the link to the kernel compile tutorial. Ironically the > video devices are being ordered correctly now, each time I boot with the > 2.6.17 kernel. I'll still go ahead with compiling a kernel on Debian > though, as I need the practice. Your welcome, I don't believe that it actually uses any file it just communicates directly with the xserver setting the various options you can in this case disabling the power management. Stephen -- GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc
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