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
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
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