I installed slackware on vmware and installed a lot of the basic
packages from disc one only. Not sure what exactly, but I don't care. I
just wanted a linux system to play with while at work. I have it start
xfce and after a few minutes, the screensaver goes on. Its using a nice
opengl screen saver which of course is eating up lots of cpu time. How
do I stop this? I can't just right click on xfce then go to a screen
saver option because there isn't one.


Another, possibly related question, at home, I'd like my monitor to shut
off after a few minutes, how do I do that? It currently goes to black
but doesn't give me the amber colored light.

Thanks.

-Miguel

Miguel De Anda wrote:

> I installed slackware on vmware and installed a lot of the basic
> packages from disc one only. Not sure what exactly, but I don't care. I
> just wanted a linux system to play with while at work. I have it start
> xfce and after a few minutes, the screensaver goes on. Its using a nice
> opengl screen saver which of course is eating up lots of cpu time. How
> do I stop this? I can't just right click on xfce then go to a screen
> saver option because there isn't one.
>
>
> Another, possibly related question, at home, I'd like my monitor to shut
> off after a few minutes, how do I do that? It currently goes to black
> but doesn't give me the amber colored light.
>

I just <ctl> <alt> F3 or whatever to get an empty console session. After a
while the screen goes black and the amber telltale appears.

John Culleton
> Thanks.
>
> -Miguel

--
John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters

Miguel De Anda wrote:
> I installed slackware on vmware and installed a lot of the basic
> packages from disc one only. Not sure what exactly, but I don't care. I
> just wanted a linux system to play with while at work. I have it start
> xfce and after a few minutes, the screensaver goes on. Its using a nice
> opengl screen saver which of course is eating up lots of cpu time. How
> do I stop this? I can't just right click on xfce then go to a screen
> saver option because there isn't one.
>
>
> Another, possibly related question, at home, I'd like my monitor to shut
> off after a few minutes, how do I do that? It currently goes to black
> but doesn't give me the amber colored light.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Miguel

xscreensaver-demo

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Miguel De Anda wrote:

> Another, possibly related question, at home, I'd like my monitor to shut
> off after a few minutes, how do I do that? It currently goes to black
> but doesn't give me the amber colored light.

You need to add an 'Option "OffTime"' line to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file
in the ServerFlags section, man xorg.conf should fill you in on the
details.

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"Miguel De Anda" typed:
> I installed slackware on vmware and installed a lot of the basic
> packages from disc one only. Not sure what exactly, but I don't care. I

Miguel, what did you use to create partitions for the slackware
install on VMware? I've tried to install slackware-9.1 on different
versions of VMware on various PCs, but each time neither fdisk nor
cfdisk could detect the virtual drive. Unless you used the kernel
with SCSI support[0].

Note:
[0] I will try that as soon as I get my copy of slackware-9.1 back.

--
Ayaz Ahmed Khan, unixforge.org/~ayaz/

"If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters."
-- Nora Ephron, "Heartburn"

Ayaz Ahmed Khan wrote:
> "Miguel De Anda" typed:
>
>>I installed slackware on vmware and installed a lot of the basic
>>packages from disc one only. Not sure what exactly, but I don't care. I
>
>
> Miguel, what did you use to create partitions for the slackware
> install on VMware? I've tried to install slackware-9.1 on different
> versions of VMware on various PCs, but each time neither fdisk nor
> cfdisk could detect the virtual drive. Unless you used the kernel
> with SCSI support[0].
>

Yeah, vmware uses scsi hard disk emulation. Look at the virtual disk
setting in vmware for the slackware system you are creating. It will
give you a list of virtual device nodes: SCSI 0:0, SCSI 0:1, etc.

When you boot from the disk, use the scsi kernel and partition /dev/sda.
Other than that, its just like setting up a regular system. Also make
sure you install the scsi kernel instead of the default one. I think it
picks scsi by itself when you boot a scsi kernel.


> Note:
> [0] I will try that as soon as I get my copy of slackware-9.1 back.
>


I just downloaded the first disk as an iso and used the image as the
"disk" that gets loaded. Didn't even have to burn on cd. (I installed it
at work and didn't have my slackware disks with me)

-Miguel

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> Miguel De Anda wrote:
>
>
>>Another, possibly related question, at home, I'd like my monitor to shut
>>off after a few minutes, how do I do that? It currently goes to black
>>but doesn't give me the amber colored light.
>
>
> You need to add an 'Option "OffTime"' line to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file
> in the ServerFlags section, man xorg.conf should fill you in on the
> details.
>
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Thanks, it worked perfectly. This is what I did:

added:

Option "OffTime" "30"

to server flags section, and added:

Option "DPMS"

to the monitor section.

Shannon Lloyd wrote:
> Miguel De Anda wrote:
>
>> I installed slackware on vmware and installed a lot of the basic
>> packages from disc one only. Not sure what exactly, but I don't care.
>> I just wanted a linux system to play with while at work. I have it
>> start xfce and after a few minutes, the screensaver goes on. Its using
>> a nice opengl screen saver which of course is eating up lots of cpu
>> time. How do I stop this? I can't just right click on xfce then go to
>> a screen saver option because there isn't one.
>>
>>
>> Another, possibly related question, at home, I'd like my monitor to
>> shut off after a few minutes, how do I do that? It currently goes to
>> black but doesn't give me the amber colored light.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -Miguel
>
>
> xscreensaver-demo


Thanks.

"Miguel De Anda" typed:
> Yeah, vmware uses scsi hard disk emulation. Look at the virtual disk
> setting in vmware for the slackware system you are creating. It will
> give you a list of virtual device nodes: SCSI 0:0, SCSI 0:1, etc.
>
> When you boot from the disk, use the scsi kernel and partition /dev/sda.
> Other than that, its just like setting up a regular system. Also make
> sure you install the scsi kernel instead of the default one. I think it
> picks scsi by itself when you boot a scsi kernel.

Yes, you're quite right. I don't know why the thought of using SCSI
kernel instead didn't cross my mind then.

> I just downloaded the first disk as an iso and used the image as the
> "disk" that gets loaded. Didn't even have to burn on cd. (I installed it
> at work and didn't have my slackware disks with me)

I wish I had the ISOs -- Using a Winmodem on my T21, I'm on a limited
dial-up connection.

--
Ayaz Ahmed Khan, unixforge.org/~ayaz/

"An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping
on to the grand fallacy."
-- Weinberg's Principle

On 13 Jan 2005 08:02:35 GMT, Ayaz Ahmed Khan <resilient@myrealbox.com>
wrote:

>"Miguel De Anda" typed:
>> Yeah, vmware uses scsi hard disk emulation. Look at the virtual disk
>> setting in vmware for the slackware system you are creating. It will
>> give you a list of virtual device nodes: SCSI 0:0, SCSI 0:1, etc.
>>
>> When you boot from the disk, use the scsi kernel and partition /dev/sda.
>> Other than that, its just like setting up a regular system. Also make
>> sure you install the scsi kernel instead of the default one. I think it
>> picks scsi by itself when you boot a scsi kernel.
>
>Yes, you're quite right. I don't know why the thought of using SCSI
>kernel instead didn't cross my mind then.
>
>> I just downloaded the first disk as an iso and used the image as the
>> "disk" that gets loaded. Didn't even have to burn on cd. (I installed it
>> at work and didn't have my slackware disks with me)
>
>I wish I had the ISOs -- Using a Winmodem on my T21, I'm on a limited
>dial-up connection.

in the vmware options, you can use ide hard disks instead of scsi