From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 8 19: 2:56 2003 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 43D3037B404 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 19:02:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.clubplus.net (mail.clubplus.net [216.191.22.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72A0443F75 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 19:02:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: from skytrackercanada.com (cust29.209.188.66.dsl.accessv.com [209.188.66.29]) by mail.clubplus.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2933Tui017671 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 22:03:33 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h2932gwV039648 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 22:02:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: from skytrackercanada.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2932fv5039622 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 22:02:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: (from david@localhost) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h2932fTc039621 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 22:02:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 22:02:41 -0500 From: David Banning To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: screen power saving question Message-ID: <20030308220241.A39533@skytrackercanada.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.12.3 - (http://pldaniels.com/inflex/) X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.2(snapshot 20021217) (mail) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am having a problem where my monitor shuts down into power saving mode, and does not always come back up when I hit the keyboard or move the mouse. I am running FreeBSD 4.7 with XFree86 4.3 and xfce window manager. My question is; What gives the the command to the monitor to go into power saving mode? Is it my bios? Does XFree86 monitor the use of the keyboard/mouse? Is is the window manager/xfce? Or maybe it's even FreeBSD itself? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message