As a work-around I ran:
> xset -dpms
> xset s off
and now, at least, the screen does not blank everytime I turn around
and the monitor is not being put to sleep... never to awaken.
Bob
On Fri, 7 May 1999, Bob Van Cleef wrote:
>
> More information on the SS5 monitor going offline. It happened again
> yesterday, after being up about a week, with many different programs open
> in various windows.
>
> Telneting into the system and running top I observed that "X" was getting
> approx. 96% of the CPU... After playing around with many, various things,
> I finally (as root) kill -9'd the X process.
>
> THIS COMPLETELY HUNG THE SYSTEM! My telnet session ended. The system no
> longer responded to ping. The monitor remained offline. L1-A produced no
> response. I ended up power cycling the box...
>
Bob
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