laptop screen blanking wont stop!

[dep]

quoth Aaron Grewell:
| Check your screensaver settings.  In KDE & Gnome there appear to be
| XScreensaver configurations that do power-related things.  I'm not
| sure how to change screensaver settings in other WM's though.
|
| On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 12:47, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
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| > I've got a thinkpad without APM/ACPI installed. I've set 'setterm
| > -blank 0' in rc.local, I've set 'xset s off' in .xnitrc, I've
| > turned off DPMS in XF86Config, but the fscking thing still blanks
| > itself! What's worse is that video doesn't come back once this
| > happens!
| > Anyone know what I'm missing?

can you switch to a different virtual console (alt-ctrl-f2, for 
instance)?

i've seen this with a bad XF86Config -- if you're booting into rl5 
(after "shame on you!") this could be a problem. there are also issues 
of framebuffer support or lack thereof and so on. but it all comes down 
to whether you can get ro a plain old login prompt.
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dep

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