Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:05:45 +0000 From: Robert Slade <bsd@bathnetworks.com> To: Nathan Vidican <nvidican@wmptl.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slightly OT, question about nvidia X driver & screensaver Message-ID: <1137103545.17905.6.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <43C6C7BB.2080808@wmptl.com> References: <43C6C7BB.2080808@wmptl.com>
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On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 21:18, Nathan Vidican wrote: > Have the nvidia driver installed on my laptop, it's running Linux/amd64... I'm a > FreeBSD guy, and relatively new to linux. To be honest, not thrilled at all - > but it works, hardware support for this thing under FreeBSD's just not there > yet. So platform use aside, the problem should be fairly simple and the same fix > on anything using nvidia's driver for x: > > My screen blanks, there are no settings inside of X, inside the > bios/power-management, or in kde, I even went so far as to disable power > management entirely... the screen blanks (like power/screen saver) after a > period of inactivity, really annoying. I havn't timed it, but figure it's at > about 5 minutes. Someone had mentioned in an email on this list before how the > nvidia driver gives them the ability to screensave/powersave a while back while > talking about something else; I only vaguely remember the thread and havn't been > able to find it searching the archives - but was hoping that if someone out > there knows how it does it, perhaps someone else may know how to stop it. > > So anyhow, my question is this: How do I make it stop? I don't want my laptop's > screen to turn off - especially so when it's plugged into a/c power, often I'm > reading an article and it blanks on me - course I can just move the mouse and > things come back, but it is really annoying. Any ideas? Please no RTFM, I'm not > a newbie over here - and I've been reading nvidia's documentation up and down > and can't find anything on the subject (though I did manage to find a few other > cool tweaks). Nathan, According to the Nvidia site the drivers are different. You really should ask your question on the linux list for the distro or even on the x-windows list. Rob
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