On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:00:18 +0000
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think it's that simple. The TCO symbol means the monitor
> itself can do this, I know in theory the bios ought to shut it down
> if you can set it as such not all bioses can.
> I think windblows has some other piece of mechanism to work
> with both the bios and the monitor to make this co-operate.
> I cannot speak for M9.2 + M10 because I don't have them,
> but up to M9.1 there just does not seem any way of turning the
> sleep mode off. I just live with it, it doesn't affect the important
> apps like mplayer etc, and since I like a blank black screen when
> the computer is idle , to my mind that's OK. What did I do,
> I set screensaver at 20 mins, and somehow I set blank black
> monitor at 60 minutes ( although I like a blank black screen
> I don't want it flicking into it all the damn time, it irritates)
> but I cannot remember how I set the 60 minutes . Sorry
> my memory fails me. But you have to have a blank black
> screen after some time or other regardless. Cannot completely
> turn it off, and as I say I came to the conclusion the monitor
> itself is the thing that is doing it for you, not bios, I think
> the monitor listens out for "events" and awakes itself
> should the need arrise, and that maybe what happens if
> you are running programmes in the background and
> suddenly the users attention is called for so it wakes the
> monitor up by listening out for this. I guess there is
> a technical imput back and forth between the monitor
> and the bus and the internet if that is on as well, I don't
> really know that much about it all. However, does
> not being able to turn off monitor sleep mode , matter ?
>
Hehehe you know it really does not matter, it just never did this
before. I have been running 9.2 since it came out and always woke up to
xscreensaver's pyro. since i reinstalled 9.2 last week was the first
time i ever saw this behaviour. Anyhow it really does not matter i
guess. Could this be "a ghost in the machine" ? naaawwww
Regards,
Dan Gordon
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Tue Mar 23 07:55:35 EST 2004
07:55:35 up 20:11, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.02
The course of true anything never does run smooth.
-- Samuel Butler
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