tp40 screen blanks forever
Randy Bush
randy at psg.com
Sun Dec 7 15:22:04 PST 2003
> > thinkpad t40p
> > 4.9-stable as of friday, all cvsupped and portupgraded to death
> >
> > SYMPTOM: if i leave the desktop alone for maybe an hour, the screen
> > is blanked and i can not get it back, even by killing X. i have to
> > reboot the machine to get the screen back
> >
> > bios has screen blanking turned off
> >
> > does not happen when X/gnome have not been started, i.e. running as
> > a non-X user
> >
> > gnome screensaver set to DisableScreenSaver
> >
> > still happens if i kill the xscreensaver process
> >
> > xset has dpms disabled
> >
> > help, i am running out of goat entrails!
>
> Are you sure this is a GNOME problem?
nope
> What happens if you run another X session?
will try building another wm. maybe one with a smaller footprint :-)
randy
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