"David J. Roundy" wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 03:08:01PM -0500, Charles Sebold wrote: > > On 15 Nisan 5761, David J. Roundy wrote: > > > > > I'm not sure if this is powerpc-specific, or not, but I have a > > > somewhat annoying issue where X will die if I stop using it for a > > > while (e.g. leave the room or work on a virtual terminal). It does > > > this whether I am just sitting in kdm or if I'm logged in under X, > > > and seems to happen every ten minutes if I'm not using X. It has > > > been happening for weeks, but only recently did it happen while I > > > was logged in on X, since usually I don't stay on X if I'm not using > > > it. > > > > Had this problem myself; looks like the screen blanking code isn't > > working. Fixed it by either running an active screensaver or using > > the built-in blanking, and I also put this in my .xinitrc (probably > > different for you since you use a display manager): > > > > xset -dpms s noblank > > That was it. Thanks a ton! I just added the above line to my > /etc/X11/kdm/Xsetup_0, and everything runs beautifully. :)
Be aware that it's only a workaround. There's a bug in either XFree86 or the framebuffer device you use (if it still happens with XFree86 4.0.99.2 or later). -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
