Charles....whoops! When my unchecking of the Enable DPMS
checkbox in the DPMS applet didn't stick when I restarted the
xserver, I decided to actually check out what you'd suggested
(I just knew from memory that APM was disabled in bios) and lo
and behold <red frowning face here> APM was enabled!!!!
Aaarrrrggggghhhhh!! Thanks again.
Alan
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> Charles....thanks, but no that's not it, as my bios power
> management is already disabled. However I believe I found the
> answer (last night - late - was half asleep already). Anyway,
> I went to the K(menu)->Configuration->Hardware->DPMS selection
> and disabled it. I believe that stopped the undesired
> behavior.
>
> Alan
>
> Charles A Edwards wrote:
> >
> > Alan
> > No one else has as of now posted a response so I will offer my guess.
> > Since 7.1 seems to offer no user setable power management options which
> > would over ride them, then the Adv. Pwr. Mgnt.settings in your BIOS will
> > take control.
> > I want my system Aways On so I disabled the fuction in my BIOS, but you
> > can disable just the video setting if you choose.
> > Hope this suggestion wasn't just wasting your time.
> >
> > Charles :-)
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Alan Shoemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 10:57 PM
> > Subject: [Cooker] Screen goes blank
> >
> > > On Friday I installed the 7.1 release version. In Display
> > > properties the screen saver is set to 'No Screensaver' but
> > > when I leave the computer and come back after a while the
> > > screen has been blanked (all black) out. Is there anothe
> > > setting at work somewhere? How can this behavior be changed?
> > >
> > > Alan
> > >
> > >
