On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 21:18, Nathan Vidican wrote: > Have the nvidia driver installed on my laptop, it's running Linux/amd64... > I'm a > FreeBSD guy, and relatively new to linux. To be honest, not thrilled at all - > but it works, hardware support for this thing under FreeBSD's just not there > yet. So platform use aside, the problem should be fairly simple and the same > fix > on anything using nvidia's driver for x: > > My screen blanks, there are no settings inside of X, inside the > bios/power-management, or in kde, I even went so far as to disable power > management entirely... the screen blanks (like power/screen saver) after a > period of inactivity, really annoying. I havn't timed it, but figure it's at > about 5 minutes. Someone had mentioned in an email on this list before how > the > nvidia driver gives them the ability to screensave/powersave a while back > while > talking about something else; I only vaguely remember the thread and havn't > been > able to find it searching the archives - but was hoping that if someone out > there knows how it does it, perhaps someone else may know how to stop it. > > So anyhow, my question is this: How do I make it stop? I don't want my > laptop's > screen to turn off - especially so when it's plugged into a/c power, often > I'm > reading an article and it blanks on me - course I can just move the mouse and > things come back, but it is really annoying. Any ideas? Please no RTFM, I'm > not > a newbie over here - and I've been reading nvidia's documentation up and down > and can't find anything on the subject (though I did manage to find a few > other > cool tweaks).
Nathan, According to the Nvidia site the drivers are different. You really should ask your question on the linux list for the distro or even on the x-windows list. Rob _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
