From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 3 07:59:49 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5451D106566B for ; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 07:59:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [65.122.17.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13E2A8FC0A for ; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 07:59:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost.watson.org [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id pB37xmMw086251 for ; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 02:59:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id pB37xmnq086248 for ; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 02:59:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 02:59:47 -0500 (EST) From: doug@safeport.com X-X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20111202140026.750aa64d.freebsd@edvax.de> Message-ID: References: <201112010829.pB18T88q096483@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20111202090524.8eaff2ec.freebsd@edvax.de> <20111202140026.750aa64d.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (fledge.watson.org [127.0.0.1]); Sat, 03 Dec 2011 02:59:48 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: make buildworld powers down system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 07:59:49 -0000 On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 03:28:09 -0500, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Polytropon 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 > > Correct, I also have those in my ~/.xinitrc together > with the xorg.conf setting above. With both settings, > screens shouldn't blank anymore. Alas my problem is/was not with screen blanking. I do have have slightly upgraded 8.2. If I do not have a failing disk, I am left with something that carried across 2 boots. The only change I made was in the BIOS to make the function keys not require the key to be a function key.