On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> How can I stop X from blanking the screen after a period of inactivity?  I have
> a laptop with a builtin mouse and keyboard, and an external USB mouse.  When I
> use the external mouse, it doesn't count it as being "activity", so I'll be in
> the middle of browsing a web page and the screen will blank.

Sounds like your BIOS is misconfigured.  Laptops BIOS settings often 
include idle blanking; disable that and you should be fine.  You may have 
to run the other OS to configure the BIOS as many laptops don't have 
sufficient control from the setup menus.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab


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