On 8 January 2013 09:54, Rowan Berkeley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/01/13 09:45, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 8 January 2013 08:10, Rowan Berkeley <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi - Now I have 12.10 running on this was-Windows machine, via the USB >>> stick >>> booting method, I have one or two teething troubles with it. Generally >>> one >>> or two restarts will sort them out, but not all of them. The main thing >>> I'm >>> vexed by is that I can't prevent it from switching off the screen after >>> ten >>> minutes inactive, even though I have put the settings in both the "Power" >>> and "Brightness and Lock" to never switch the screen off. Is there any >>> third >>> control that could be doing this? >> >> You say it switches off after 10 mins, what happens if you set it (in >> Brightness and Lock) to 5 mins? What if you set it to 1 hour? Have you got >> Lock Off in Brightness and Lock? Colin > > Yup, I've tried all that; it's just stuck in 10 minute mode. Apart from > that, there's nothing that's actually stuck, though quite a few things > didn't work first time and needed reboots. Oh, and it can't configure > Bluetooth on this machine (Compaq CQ58). Bluetooth just shows as "disabled" > whether the hardware switch (f11) is on or off. I've never used Bluetooth > and have no need for it, but I suspect this may be a common problem.
Could be https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1072531 or https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1046118 Searching https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs can often be useful when looking to see if a problem has already been reported. Don't forget to add yourself to Affects Me and subscribe to new comments emails. Colin -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
