SilverSurfer60 Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 (edited) Where do I stop power management closing down the monitor(s)? I have as far as I know turned off all power management in KDE, BIOS. I have been pestered with this since 2010.1 As I have LCD monitors I have not used power management for quite some time. The annoying part is when watching video and the screen always blacks out at the vital point. I know this is a newbie question, but I'm not a newbie. Getting older, and the memory is not what it was. Help will be appreciated. Thank you. Edited April 22, 2011 by SilverSurfer60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isadora Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 Could not think about anything else then changing events through "Power Management" in "System Settings". By editing profiles one should be able to effect settings for monitor-handling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 Does the monitor have its own timeout? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 Hi Ho Silver...............Surfer. :D Have you tried entering .....Configure your Desktop......System Settings........Advanced...........Power Management.......Edit Profiles.......Actions......"When the system is idle for more than.." change the bar to "Do nothing". Then select .....Screen and then remove the X in the "Enable display power management". I hope that solves your problem. Cheers. John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted April 22, 2011 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 (edited) Do what AssieJohn said, then go to the section where you configure screensaver, and disable screensavers. Edited April 22, 2011 by coverup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted April 22, 2011 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 I am having the same problem with 2010.1. The fix suggested here did not work. http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-216747.htm%0Al what to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{BBI}Nexus{BBI} Posted April 22, 2011 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 (edited) If Johns suggestion doesn't work a good trick is in Power Management: Under Settings and Profile Disable Let PowerDevil manage screen powersaving. Under Profile Assignment. When the power adaptor is plugged in. Set it to Presentation mode. See if that helps, it does for me. Edited April 22, 2011 by {BBI}Nexus{BBI} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted April 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 Thank you for the suggestions, most of which I had already tried. I have now disabled all the possible options in the section that John suggests and will wait to see if that works. I will have a look at the link that daniewicz has posted. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted April 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 Thank you daniewicz, your link has sorted it. Going by the number of posts in the forum it obviously was not just a KDE thing. Anyway I have added the options to xorg.conf and it seems to have worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted April 22, 2011 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 I glad it worked for you SilverSurfer60. Sadly, it did not help me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted April 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 daniewicz, have you gone through the other suggestions on this thread? I have and maybe something else has helped. Personally I think it is a kernel problem, as there are so many having similar problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 22, 2011 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 It's not the kernel, it's completely unrelated to the kernel. It's power management configuration within the desktop environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted April 22, 2011 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 (edited) daniewicz, have you gone through the other suggestions on this thread? Yes I have. It is only a minor annoyance as this is a desktop computer and I do not watch movies on it. I prefer to watch movies on my laptop and it is working fine B) Edited April 22, 2011 by daniewicz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted April 23, 2011 Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 Well it appears I reacted prematurely. Power management is working for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted April 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 Glad you are also sorted daniewicz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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