D. D. Brierton wrote:
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 20:45 +0000, D. D. Brierton wrote:
I am still using version 7676 of the NVIDIA driver because I am stuck on
kernel 2.6.13 (Firewire problems with 2.6.14) and Livna aren't building
driver updates for the old kernels. If you are using the latest 8178
driver maybe I should try building an rpm of it for my kernel from
Livna's src rpm and trying again. Are you using 8178?
Well, I just built and installed the 8178 driver and there is still no
improvement. The one thing that I didn't mention before is that I have
in /etc/modprobe.conf the following:
options nvidia NVreg_SoftEDIDs=0 NVreg_Mobile=0
as that is necessary to prevent a garbled screen. I know that the NVIDIA
driver readme says that NVreg_Mobile=1 is the correct setting for Dell
notebooks but that setting does not prevent the problem. I just went
back to the NVIDIA forum to check the details of that particular fix.
It's in this thread:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=40490
and in this Livna bugzilla report:
http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320
Interestingly in this message in this related NVIDIA forums thread,
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=566272&postcount=4
the NVreg_Mobile=0 fix is also reported to break DPMS. Time to nag
NVIDIA about this again, I guess. Anyway, I seem to have identified the
cause.
Best, Darren
You might try adding a block like this to your xorg.conf
and playing with the values that you want.
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "BlankTime" "10"
Option "StandbyTime" "0"
Option "SuspendTime" "15"
Option "OffTime" "0"
EndSection
See the man page for xorg.conf to get definitions of these
options.
--Kenny
