Peter Watson wrote: > I am using KDE 3.0 on LM 9.0. > > The monitor power saving features (standby, suspend and power off ) were > working fine except that they interfered with ripping a DVD which went on > for a long period and so I disabled them from Configure>KDE>Power > Control>Energy. > > After succesfully ripping the DVD I tried to re-enable Power Saving but no > luck, the screen never blanks. A bit of digging showed that when trying to > re-enable the menu's command "kcmshell energy" puts rubbish in file > ~/.kde/share/config/kcmdisplayrc, I have edited this to be the same as > /usr/share/config/kcmdisplayrc ie > ====================================== > > [DisplayEnergy] > displayEnergySaving=true > displayPowerOff=45 > displayStandby=15 > displaySuspend=30 > > ===================================== > > but still no screen blanking. The other apparent fault is that > ~/.kde/share/config/kcminitrc is completely blank ie 0kb and I don't know > what it should contain. > > If anyone can give me any pointers onthis problem or post the contents of > their ~/.kde/share/config/kcminitrc I would be very grateful. > > Regards Pete > Ardnamurchan Scotland >########################################################### Hi Pete, my ~/.kde/share/config/kcminitrc is 0kb also. My /usr/share/config/kcmdisplayrc is the same as yours. However, ~/.kde/share/config/kcmdisplayrc contains only the following: [X11] exportKDEColors=false
My power management seems to be working OK. I'm using KDE 3 on LM 9.0 as well. Hope this helps. --Angus How do you destroy a righteous person? Give him or her one follower! --ancient Cherokee saying (fr. "Earth Medicine" by Jamie Sams) *************************************** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *************************************** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *************************************** -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze
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