On Friday, January 19, 2007 @ 1:12 AM, Darryl Gregorash wrote: >On 2007-01-19 00:12, Greg Wallace wrote: >> <snip> >> That check box (Enable Specific Display Power Management) is grayed out. >> I tried going in under the specific tabs and trying every combination I >> could think of but none of the combinations worked. The monitor still >> powered down after a certain length of time. >Check in /etc/sysconfig/powersave/common for >POWERSAVE_SCREENSAVER_DPMS_OFF, and make sure it is set to "yes". I'm >really just fishing -- never have I heard of that checkbox being greyed >out, and unchecking it has always turned off the display power >management junk.
I logged in today, left the room for over an hour, came back, and the screensaver was still working! I went into the KDE Control Center, Peripherals, Display, and that box you wanted me to uncheck which I couldn't because it was greyed out had automagically become unchecked! Not only that, but last night, there was a long horizontal button on that first screen that took me to a sub-menu with several categories. Today, that button has disappeared and been replaced with three trackbars, all grayed out, that say "Standby After", "Suspend After", and "Power Off After". I. e., the entire appearance has changed! The only thing I did last night was to click on that long button, which took me to a sub-menu with 4 different listbox items, go into each category under each listbox item, and uncheck everything on the two tabbed menus that were under each category. That still didn't work, but I didn't re-boot after making those changes. Apparently, simply re-booting the system today caused the system to see that everything was unselected at the detail level and so it just unchecked the box on the first panel automatically and replaced that oblong button with the three greyed out sliders. Pretty strange! Anyway, my sceensaver is staying on now so, however it happened, the result is that everything is now a-ok. >Have you ever done a fresh install for any version since 8.2? I'm >getting the impression that maybe you haven't. You've got more problems >than any 6 other people on this list -- maybe time to do a fresh install :-) Greg Wallace -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
