Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 03:28:09 -0500 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: doug@safeport.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make buildworld powers down system Message-ID: <CAOgwaMtW4tmHJZxaXy_=phfLk7gge%2BjTYj0BXAqT2Cmd2V=yFQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111202090524.8eaff2ec.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <201112010829.pB18T88q096483@mail.r-bonomi.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1112020005340.76910@oceanpt.safeport.com> <20111202090524.8eaff2ec.freebsd@edvax.de>
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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 before the statement exec ... desktop_manager such as exec /usr/local/bin/gnome-session etc. OR ( every time when required ) in a terminal window of the desktop manager , enter the above xset commands , which will be effective only up to exit from the X or shutdown of the computer . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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