Incoming from Doyle, Patrick: > Thank you for your quick reply.... > > > Incoming from Doyle, Patrick: > > > I found this thread in the archives, and I am experiencing the same > > > behavior (on my Compaq Presario 2100 with a stock "woody" bf2.4 > > > install). I have also seen that I cannot run KDE -- it > > > simply crashes during startup. From everything I've read, I > > > probably need to upgrade to Xfree86 4.3 in order to make these > > > problems go away, but I have some questions first. > > > > > > 1) In the short term (I need to get work done _today_ and > > > can't spend the day upgrading X), how can I turn off the > > > screensaver? I don't see any menu > > > I don't use kde, but doesn't a right-click on the background > > bring up anything useful? > > > Sadly no, this is why I am so confused. I just can't find the right knob to
Sorry for misreading your post. You can't run kde; what are you running? By "screensaver", do you perhaps mean "screenblanker?" Try "setterm -blank 0" -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - -
