'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 07/08/12 16:08 did gyre and gimble: > On 08/07/2012 09:27 AM, Frank Griffin wrote: >> In current cauldron, my desktop system's monitor keeps powering down >> after a relatively small period of inactivity. I've checked what's >> running, and the only two likely candidates I could find were sensord >> and upowerd, but I've killed both of them and it still happens. >> >> Any idea what's doing this ? syslog, messages, and other things in >> /var/log give no hint. >> > The period of inactivity that causes this is exactly 30 seconds. I've > checked both Display and Power Management in the KDE tools, and nothing > is set which should cause this. Screensaver is off, and so is any PM > setting that would do this.
Try: xset -dpms? Dunno what else would be doing it tho'. Likely related to graphics card driver tho', so probably worth mentioning what you're using. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
