From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 12 22:02:20 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 3FB1F16A478 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:02:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@bathnetworks.com) Received: from lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk (mail.bathnetworks.com [84.92.24.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 291E643D49 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:02:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@bathnetworks.com) Received: (qmail 21588 invoked by uid 510); 12 Jan 2006 22:05:47 +0000 Received: from 84.92.24.252 by lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk (envelope-from , uid 508) with qmail-scanner-1.24-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.87/1146. spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.24-st-qms. Clear:RC:0(84.92.24.252):SA:0(-3.8/5.0):. Processed in 1.330043 secs); 12 Jan 2006 22:05:47 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.8 required=5.0 X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN-Mail-From: bsd@bathnetworks.com via lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN: 1.24-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(84.92.24.252):SA:0(-3.8/5.0):. Processed in 1.330043 secs Process 21581) Received: from mail.bathnetworks.com (HELO ?84.92.24.252?) (bsd@bathnetworks.com@84.92.24.252) by lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk with SMTP; 12 Jan 2006 22:05:45 +0000 From: Robert Slade To: Nathan Vidican In-Reply-To: <43C6C7BB.2080808@wmptl.com> References: <43C6C7BB.2080808@wmptl.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1137103545.17905.6.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:05:45 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 22:02:20 -0000 On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 21:18, Nathan Vidican wrote: > 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, According to the Nvidia site the drivers are different. You really should ask your question on the linux list for the distro or even on the x-windows list. Rob