Slightly OT, question about nvidia X driver & screensaver

[Robert Slade]

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