From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 3 23:13:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C26E31065675 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 23:13:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EFF38FC14 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 23:13:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id mA3NDr5k037658 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:13:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:13:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:13:29 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20081103231328.GA3956@thought.org> References: <20081103194718.GA35402@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <20081103194718.GA35402@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, DNS_FROM_SECURITYSAGE,URIBL_BLACK autolearn=no version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Subject: Re: Bizarre:: blank screen [on KVM] refuses to come back... 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: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:13:35 -0000 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