No. This only happens in Mandrake 7.1 It does not happen in my NT4, Warp
4, DOS, Win 3.1 OSs on the same PC and did not happen when I had TurboLinux
6 installed. It is specific to Mandrake and I suspect there is a setting I
need to turn off somewhere, but do not know where.
Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Registered Linux user 183185
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 5:31 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] How to stop screen from blanking out?
> Have you got power saving set in your BIOS ?
>
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > I am running Mandrake 7.1 in a kde environment on a desktop. I have a
> > screen saver installed (science).
> >
> > If I leave the PC unused for a time, the screensaver comes on, but a
little
> > later the screen blanks out until I reuse the PC. I thought this might
be
> > because APMD was on. Since this was a desktop I turned off APMD in
startup
> > services, but the screen still blanks out after a while.
> >
> > How can I stop this?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Registered Linux user 183185
>
>
