From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 12 21:18:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 064A716A41F for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:18:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.net (fw1.wmptl.com [216.8.159.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61B9943D45 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:18:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Received: from [10.0.0.104] (r3140ca.wmptl.net [10.0.0.104]) by wmptl.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k0CLIkZC034699 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:18:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <43C6C7BB.2080808@wmptl.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:18:51 -0500 From: Nathan Vidican User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.111 () RATWR10_MESSID X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.44 Cc: Subject: Slightly OT, question about nvidia X driver & screensaver X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:18:49 -0000 Have the nvidia driver installed on my laptop, it's running Linux/amd64... I'm a FreeBSD guy, and relatively new to linux. To be honest, not thrilled at all - but it works, hardware support for this thing under FreeBSD's just not there yet. So platform use aside, the problem should be fairly simple and the same fix on anything using nvidia's driver for x: My screen blanks, there are no settings inside of X, inside the bios/power-management, or in kde, I even went so far as to disable power management entirely... the screen blanks (like power/screen saver) after a period of inactivity, really annoying. I havn't timed it, but figure it's at about 5 minutes. Someone had mentioned in an email on this list before how the nvidia driver gives them the ability to screensave/powersave a while back while talking about something else; I only vaguely remember the thread and havn't been able to find it searching the archives - but was hoping that if someone out there knows how it does it, perhaps someone else may know how to stop it. So anyhow, my question is this: How do I make it stop? I don't want my laptop's screen to turn off - especially so when it's plugged into a/c power, often I'm reading an article and it blanks on me - course I can just move the mouse and things come back, but it is really annoying. Any ideas? Please no RTFM, I'm not a newbie over here - and I've been reading nvidia's documentation up and down and can't find anything on the subject (though I did manage to find a few other cool tweaks). -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/