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Date:      Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:13:29 -0800
From:      Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
To:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Bizarre:: blank screen [on KVM] refuses to come back...
Message-ID:  <20081103231328.GA3956@thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081103194718.GA35402@thought.org>
References:  <20081103194718.GA35402@thought.org>

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On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 11:47:22AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
>=20
> 	A couple of things may be related to this behavior. When I have
> 	left my keyboard for more than a few hours, FreeBSD with X11
> 	running KDE3 remains blan=7Fck/blank.  No amount of moving my
> 	mouse of tapping keys will bring back the display.  (I'm writing=20
> 	this ssh'd in my via Ubuntu [KDE?].)
>=20
> 	I noticed--via top--that the system was loaded at above 2.00=20
> 	while otherwise "idle"; I've killed off a bunch of processes but
> 	cannot get the load below 1.00.   I'm running 7.0, on a
> 	Dell-8200, 1G RAM. =20
>=20
> 	So:  any suggestions how to get my screen back? Has anybody seen
> 	this before?  Why the heavy load:: any ideas?  And, is there any
> 	way I can turn off screen blanking *completely*?  I almost always
> 	turn off the display anyway if I'm gone for > 15-20 minutes.
>=20
> 	thanks for any clues.  i hate to keep rebooting. ...
>=20
> 	gary


	Finally found (possible) solutions on a usenet forums site:
	xset s off;
	xset -dpms;

	Then in /etc/X11.org, comment  the DPMS option, e.g.:

		#Option     "DPMS"

	See if this works. =20
--=20
 Gary Kline  kline@thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service Unix
        http://jottings.thought.org   http://transfinite.thought.org





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