[solved] Re: 9.0 release not dead but barely breathing after idling

2012-09-20 Thread Gary Aitken
Finally. Turns out I had done something really dumb; the problem had nothing to do with screen blanking or X. Because I send and receive mail via another server, I had disabled sending mail in rc.conf. don't do dat. I wasn't getting the system messages targeted at root, and eventually

Re: 9.0 release not dead but barely breathing after idling

2012-08-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org: Aargh... So my 9.0 RELEASE system no longer totally hangs when sitting idle... it seems to run quite a bit longer, waking up from screen blanking in general even after long (overnight) periods of sitting idle. However, not always. X (screen was

9.0 release not dead but barely breathing after idling

2012-08-21 Thread Gary Aitken
Aargh... So my 9.0 RELEASE system no longer totally hangs when sitting idle... it seems to run quite a bit longer, waking up from screen blanking in general even after long (overnight) periods of sitting idle. However, not always. X (screen was allowed to blank after 10 min, I'm testing w/ that