On 23 May 2000, Matthew Wilson Emmett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'd like to have my desktop save power after 30min of inactivity. >I've managed to do this before, but I lost my overnight cron jobs, and >the clock always got skewed.
Do you want that when you're in X or on the console? Three things to consider: 1. Configure and activate APM in your BIOS, compile kernel with APM support (you probably did that already). 2. Install the apmd package (no need to actually run the apm*d*, all you need is apm) and run 'apm -s' or 'apm -S' as needed. Is that what you used a cron job for? Would be unusual. 3. Configure X properly (set timeouts and define "power_saver") and run 'xset dpms' from .xinit. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
