I cannot elp with SuSe exactly, so I am not sure how well Yast really works, but there also some power saving options in the kde control center. Perhaps Yast a setting in here is over riding Yast.
To test the hardware, use knoppix, and see if you can disable the screen blanking. Ciao -- Gustin ___ Sent with SnapperMail www.snappermail.com ...... Original Message ....... On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:18:35 -0600 "Peter Van den Wildenbergh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi All: > >Installed a SuSE 10, configured power management (in yast) as "Presentation" >"Display standby mode and screensaver are disabled. " > >But the screen(s) (4 on 1 PC :-) still turn black after 10 minutes. >I think it is in the bios >It's an older Dell and I only have the option to turn the >powersafe mode to "S1" or "S3" (Whatever that means) > >Is there a way to trick the BIOS (a cronjob pretending activity....?) >to get around this? > >It is a monitoring system using Nagios >the idea is to have the 4 screens located in a central space in our IT dept. >so each time one of us walks by we have a 2 seconds look to see that all >is fine... or not. > >Thanks > >Peter > >-- > >Peter Van den Wildenbergh >Manager Infrastructure > >CriticalControl Solutions Inc. >Suite 1100, 840 - 7th Avenue SW >Calgary, AB T2P 3G2 >Canada > >T (403) 705.7500 >F (403) 705.7555 >D (403) 294.6509 >M (403) 464 3972 >W www.criticalcontrol.com > > > > >_______________________________________________ >clug-talk mailing list >[email protected] >http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >**Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
