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

[Donn Shumway]

I commented out the Option "power_saver" section , then restarted X and the
problem seems to be resolved. Thanks for the comments.

Donn
----- Original Message -----
>From: anselrodriguez
>To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 8:02 PM
>Subject: Re: Turning off video power management in X on Mandrake v7.1


>Donn, it sounds like it could be the power saving mode of kcmdpms.

>>Donn Shumway wrote:
>>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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