Adam Hardy wrote at 2009-10-28 04:47 -0500: > green on 26/10/09 03:29, wrote: > thanks for taking an interest - I re-installed lenny from scratch and > these error messages don't appear any more. Plus the clicking has gone. > The brute force solution!
It still would be good to check the drive with smartmontools, unless you don't care about your data. > My only problem now is with the video signal powering down after 10 mins. > I can't find the configuration setting anywhere and searching the > internet has so far only turned up people in the same situation - it's > not the BIOS, it's not X (it happens on the command line too), and I > can't see any settings in /etc that might regulate it. Check /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (look for "OffTime" in xorg.conf(5). Check /etc/console-tools/config file: BLANK_TIME=0 BLANK_DPMS=off POWERDOWN_TIME=0 I suggest setting them that way and see if it makes a difference, then adjusting later if necessary. In X, what is the output of: $ xset q | grep -i dpms
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