On Tuesday 23 March 2004 07:04 am, Dan Gordon wrote: > 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 I would suggest since the monitor is causing the alleged problem you might try the buttons just under the screen on your monitor, one of them should provide you with a menu and likely one of the menu items will resolve the difficulty to your satisfaction. -- Regards; Hoyt
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