On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 10:41 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: > Michael A. Peters wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 23:33 +0100, Zubin Bharucha wrote: > > > > > >>I think so. If I remember correctly, FC4 ships without the screensaver > >>package but still after a while, the screen blanks out. > >>-Zubin > >> > > > > > > FC-4 has the screensaver-base package. > > > > But screen blanking I believe is power management stuff, not the > > screensaver. > > > > Having found that power management is off by default, I just turned > mine on via the screensaver. I had to adjust the times to suit my > needs. My power management works if the terminal is left in login > mode but didn't if the user was logged in. > > It also doesn't work if the user is logged in and the screensaver is off. > > Before I moved to FC4, I used a shell login and used setterm to adjust > the power management features. I think that there may also be > something in the BIOS on some computers to achieve this. > > Robin > See xset. You can also set some of the DPMS options in xorg.conf. Bob...
