Xset issue

George Toft plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:25:58 -0500


Since I'm using my SuSE box as a TV and CD player, I need the timeout
to be more than an hour.

George


Gontran wrote:
> 
> * 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
> 
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