Guest Liono Posted November 18, 2002 Report Share Posted November 18, 2002 For some reason, I appear to have this problem where my computer crashes when I leave it alone for a long time. I have no idea what could be causing it, but whenever I come back to my pc the screen has gone black and I can't use any of the linux hotkeys to de-block it. Anyone know of the problem and any fixes they could think of? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted November 18, 2002 Report Share Posted November 18, 2002 You don't say what kind of setup you have, or version of mdk so im guessing here. Its possible its a energy saving set up in your bios which needs looking at. Try this to see if it makes any difference. Go to kde control centre, power control, energy. Disable the Energy saving features and see if it still locks up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Liono Posted November 19, 2002 Report Share Posted November 19, 2002 Oh sorry about the setup, it completely passed over my head (I was in a hurry when I posted the message) I'm running mandrake 9.0 powerpack. I've got a: nvidia gforce 2 mx 400 amd athlon 900 256 ram(dunno what type) 45 gig hard drive, dual booting with windows 98se I've also heard of this problem elsewhere, but I haven't seen any fixes, it seems like something related to my graphics card though, whatever it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted November 19, 2002 Report Share Posted November 19, 2002 Have you tried pressing the "wake" key on your keyboard? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Liono Posted November 19, 2002 Report Share Posted November 19, 2002 Have you tried pressing the "wake" key on your keyboard? I've tried everything. I know it's crashed because the computer won't even respond to a ping... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted November 20, 2002 Report Share Posted November 20, 2002 Take a look at xset man xset xset --help I use xset s off s noblank dpms 0 0 0 in my ~/.xinitrc X startup script. Not because I have to, but because I find these features annoying, and turn the monitor off myself when away for any period of time. s off=screensaver off s noblank= don't blank the screen to a black screen dpms 0 0 0=turns off all powermanagement. I also have ption "DPMS" "off" in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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