Re: Sony Vaio OBSD 5.8 screen blanking forever

2015-11-15 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Dutch Ingraham wrote: xset -dpms Bingo. Thanks! -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan

Re: Sony Vaio OBSD 5.8 screen blanking forever

2015-11-15 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 12:34:33PM -0700, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > I've done xset s off. KDE is set not to blank. > You could try this combination: xset -dpms; xset s off See xset(1).

Sony Vaio OBSD 5.8 screen blanking forever

2015-11-15 Thread Jack J. Woehr
I've done xset s off. KDE is set not to blank. But on my Sony Vaio OBSD 5.8 in Xwindows with any manager after about 10 minutes of inactivity the screen blanks and won't come back, forcing me to kill the session (ctl-alt-bkspc). Must be something in the card's VGA graphics mode? Any tips or tr