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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