[Mageia-dev] Desktop monitor powering down

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 07/08/12 16:08 did gyre and gimble:
> On 08/07/2012 09:27 AM, Frank Griffin wrote:
>> In current cauldron, my desktop system's monitor keeps powering down
>> after a relatively small period of inactivity.  I've checked what's
>> running, and the only two likely candidates I could find were sensord
>> and upowerd, but I've killed both of them and it still happens.
>>
>> Any idea what's doing this ?  syslog, messages, and other things in
>> /var/log give no hint.
>>
> The period of inactivity that causes this is exactly 30 seconds. I've
> checked both Display and Power Management in the KDE tools, and nothing
> is set which should cause this.  Screensaver is off, and so is any PM
> setting that would do this.

Try: xset -dpms?

Dunno what else would be doing it tho'. Likely related to graphics card
driver tho', so probably worth mentioning what you're using.

Col




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