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On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:09:03 GMT, Al. C wrote:
> I hope I've not asked this here before. I've looked all over the net and
> have not been able to find the answer. I've asked everywhere and no one
> knows, so as last resort I turn to the Slack gurus (who know everything!)
>

Actually you have asked this before back on 28 Aug 2004. Sorry to
hear none of the potential solutions offered then worked for you.

> If anyone has an idea, let me know. It's been driving me bats for the past
> year!
>

Things to check...

Near the top of /etc/rc.d/rc.M

# Screen blanks after 15 minutes idle time, and powers down in one
# hour if the kernel supports APM or ACPI power management:
/bin/setterm -blank 15 -powersave powerdown -powerdown 60

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In /etc/X11/xorg.conf

# Set the basic blanking screen saver timeout.

# Option "blank time" "10" # 10 minutes

# Set the DPMS timeouts. These are set here because they are global
# rather than screen-specific. These settings alone don't enable
# DPMS.
# It is enabled per-screen (or per-monitor), and even then only when
# the driver supports it.

# Option "standby time" "20"
# Option "suspend time" "30"
# Option "off time" "60"
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A BIOS setting on the laptop reachable at boot time?

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Perhaps you could put

xset s noblank
xset s off
xset -dpms

in $HOME/.xprofile or $HOME/.session or somewhere
man xset in any case
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In the previous thread you said:
There is a discussion about this on comp.sys.laptops where Peter
Breuer has gotten involved. Some of you might know that name as he
has a reputation on several NGs for being a 'world class' Linux
expert.... and also sort of a 'character.' I'm surprised he's not a
Slack user as he personifies the concept of "don't give the guy the
fish, teach him how to fish" which is sort of the unwritten charter
around here. He thinks it might be an X thing having to do with
"SendCoreEvents" and has led me to learn more about X...but I have
that in the xconfig file.

Do you still have those settings?

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What kernel are you using? Perhaps the one you are using has a quirk
with your system that was fixed in a newer kernel? Wild guess here.

Same with X, perhaps it is time to try a newer version of x11?

Hope there is something to try here.

Brad




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