Turning off video power management in X on Mandrake v7.1

[Jason Brown]

As for the video card detection, yes this is normal.  Another thing is that
if you want to play quake3, etc that needs the glide drivers, the Mandrake
versions do not work.  You need to get the glide packages from
linux.3dfx.com.

Jason

On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, "Donn Shumway" wrote:
> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:55:25 -0700
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> From: "Donn Shumway" <donn@linuxfan.com>
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Turning off video power management in X on Mandrake v7.1
> 
> I recently installed Mandrake v7.1 on a K6II-450, 128Mb RAM,
> Voodoo3-2000. I
> had a few strange occurances during install, but now everything (almost)
> seems to be working fine.
> 
> The problem is that a few minutes after the screen saver comes on (using
> KDE), my monitor goes into a non-sync mode that I assume is some power
> saving feature of the video system. I have not experienced this with
> previous versions of Mandrake. I checked the BIOS during boot and APM
> features are turned off. Is there a setting in the XF86Config file that I
> can change to eliminate this problem?
> 
> Also, the install seems to recognize my Voodoo3-2000 as a 'Voodoo 3
> (Generic). Is this normal for XFree86 v3.3.6?
> 
> I looked in the XF86Config file and there is a line in the 'Graphics
> Device
> Section' that reads:
> 
> ------------------------
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier "Generic VGA"
>     Chipset "generic"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier "Voodoo3 (generic)"
>     VendorName "Unknown"
>     Boardname "Unknown"
> *    VideoRam    16384
>     * Clock lines
> 
>     * Uncomment following option if you see a big white block
>     * instead of the cursor!
>     *Option    "sw_cursor"
> 
>     Option "power_saver"
> EndSection
> ------------------------
> 
> If I comment out the Option "power_saver" will this disable the option?
> 
> Thanks for all your assistance.
> The Reiser FS is really impressive!
> 
> Regards,
> Donn Shumway
> 
> 
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