From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jun 22 12:25:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from thoth.upan.org (thoth.upan.org [204.107.76.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9533B37BC0E for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:25:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikel@ocsny.com) Received: from ocsny.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thoth.upan.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA84614; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 15:29:56 GMT (envelope-from mikel@ocsny.com) Message-ID: <395230F4.FE46E337@ocsny.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 15:29:56 +0000 From: Mikel King X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 5.0-20000612-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joseph Scott Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: quick question References: <3951F4DA.12D23ADE@ocsny.com> <3952619D.A9F0D3A0@owp.csus.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Joseph, Agreed, I am trying Richards' fix now....I will leave up over nite and see what happens...Definately if it stays up ok then I'll post it.. Joseph Scott wrote: > Mikel King wrote: > > > > I just got 5.0 61200 snap running on my dell i7500 complete with x4, and > > stuff. I've notice that every once and awhile the screen goes blank if I > > catch it quickly I cna move the mouse and bring it back up, but if it > > sits too long then it's fubar. I know this is probably some osrt of > > power management deffect (er I mean func) but I really would just love > > to disable it. > > I've got the same exact machine running 4-STABLE with X4. I also > have the same exact problem. Lately I've take to switching back to > console if I won't be using X for awhile. This keeps things afloat. > One nice thing about X4 that I was a problem with X3 was suspend. If > I shut the lid with X4 running it suspends correctly, on X3 it locked > really really bad. > > So if you come up with something that works for you, please let me > know. I've been playing with different things off and on with no luck > so far. Actually if either of us find something that works, we should > post it back to the list so that it's in the archives. > > > On a side note I do have ALL power mangement disabled in cmos...and I > > made sure that rc.conf doesn't have and screen saver commands...so I am > > wondering where this is coming from and how to turn it off. Even more > > strange I can sometimes leave the thing on over night and it won't > > happen but if I'm using the thing and wait a few minute like to answer > > say a phone call or run to the mens room after my coffee lease runs > > out...it happens.... > > > > ok so you can understand that it's a bit frustrating...so hopefully some > > of you who are far wiser than I will have the answer to this one... > > If I could fix this there's only one other thing that I need X4 to > work with that's currently broken, vmware2. Then I'd be a very happy > camper indeed. The only thing left would be sound support, but that's > not critical for getting my work done. > > -- > Joseph Scott > joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu > Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message