Thanks, The options in the bios, however, are extremely limited and this unfortunately is not one of them.
Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:vox-tech- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Jay Salzman > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 8:55 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Laptop Going to Sleep In Console Mode > > you can usually turn options like this on and off in bios. > > pete > > > On Wed 03 Dec 03, 8:32 AM, Daniel Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Greetings, > > > > I have a Dell Inspiron 2600 Laptop and I recently noticed a feature that > is > > quite annoying and cannot figure out how to turn it off. When working > in > > the console, about every 5 minutes or so, the console will go to sleep. > The > > only way to wake the display back up is to switch to tty7 where the > > X-Windows session is running and then switch back to the terminal that I > was > > working on. It seems to me that the computer does not recognize that > the > > keyboard is being used and so sleeps the monitor to conserve power, but > this > > happens even when the laptop is running on AC power. Also, it seems > that if > > I am switching between consoles (tty1 - tty6) it does not go into sleep > > mode. Once it is in sleep mode, however, only switching to tty7 will > wake > > the screen back up. > > > > I was wondering if anyone knows of a solution to this problem or a > feature > > that I can disable. I work most of the time in the console, and so it > is > > really quite frustrating to have to have the screen blank out on oneself > > every 5-10 minutes. > > > > > > Thanks in Advance, > > > > Dan Hurt > > > > System Specs: > > Gentoo Linux > > 2.6.0 Kernel > > Possibly Relevant Kernel Options Enabled: > > - ACPI Support Enabled > > - AC Adapter > > - Battery > > - Button > > - Fan > > - Processor > > - Thermal Zone > > - Relaxed AML > > - Power Management Timer Support > > -- > Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein > GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg > GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
