Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 02:59:47 -0500 (EST) From: doug@safeport.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make buildworld powers down system Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1112030252030.66833@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20111202140026.750aa64d.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <201112010829.pB18T88q096483@mail.r-bonomi.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1112020005340.76910@oceanpt.safeport.com> <20111202090524.8eaff2ec.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAOgwaMtW4tmHJZxaXy_=phfLk7gge%2BjTYj0BXAqT2Cmd2V=yFQ@mail.gmail.com> <20111202140026.750aa64d.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 03:28:09 -0500, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 02:06:26 -0500 (EST), doug@safeport.com wrote: >>>> The screen does go into standby and I am not >>>> sure what is controling that, nothing in KDE or Xorg that I set, perhaps >>> a >>>> sysctl setting but I did not see one in the acpi section. >>> >>> This might be a dafault option. You can override it in >>> your /etc/X11/xorg.conf by setting >>> >>> Option "DPMS" "false" >>> >>> in the section "Monitor" where you define the values >>> for your monitor. I had a similar experience with an >>> 21" CRT Eizo F980 going to sleep unintendedly. :-) >>> >>> -- >>> Polytropon >>> Magdeburg, Germany >>> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 >>> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... >> >> Another way may be inserting the following lines into ~/.xinitrc : >> >> xset s off >> xset -dpms > > Correct, I also have those in my ~/.xinitrc together > with the xorg.conf setting above. With both settings, > screens shouldn't blank anymore. Alas my problem is/was not with screen blanking. I do have have slightly upgraded 8.2. If I do not have a failing disk, I am left with something that carried across 2 boots. The only change I made was in the BIOS to make the function keys not require the <fn> key to be a function key.
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