Xset issue

Gontran plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:06:18 -0700


* George Toft (george@georgetoft.com) wrote:
> I am having a problem controlling my DPMS settings.  This is on
> a SUSE 7.3 box, running the default kernel, XFree, with icewm.
> Currently, the box turns off the monitor after about a minute.
> I need to change that to one hour.  I've tried using:

Silly question: checked the bios?  Is an hour really required?  If not,
maybe rebuild kernel without apm action for the display -- or remove the
appropriate module from whatever SuSE uses for modules.conf?  Haven't seen 
that behaviour before.

~shrug
Gontran