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I notice that after a certain period of time, the screen will go blank. If I move the mouse, the display is restored. Is this a power saving feature of ...
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    Power saving in Slackware

    I notice that after a certain period of time, the screen will go blank. If I move the mouse, the display is restored. Is this a power saving feature of Slackware that I can control?
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    what wm are you using?
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    It's an asus Cusl2 with a 800MHz PIII. I have power management options set to disabled in the bios. It was set to User Defined, but there are no user definable settings to speak of.
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    wm = window manager, kde, gnome, fluxbox, elightment, xfce.
    also you may want to check out the xset command
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    I have slackware 9.0 without X installed, Even on the command line it still does this
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    It does it at the command line without having any xwindows started. I just turned off all power savings in the BIOS, so I'll run it some more and see if it's Linux doing it or not.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AAnarchYY
    what wm are you using?
    Haha, sorry, did not understand "wm"

    This happens with no wm running at all. It also happens from within KDE. I set power control to never standby/suspend/power off, and am waiting to see if it works. I also disabled all power saving in the BIOS.
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    hello
    put a line in file "/etc/rc.d/rc.local "
    modprobe apm

    now your systems' power management should work
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    One thing I've noticed is that if there is any network or cpu activity, it keeps running. It's only when there is nothing going on at all that it kicks in the power saving. I'll try the modprobe apm entry, what exactly does it do?
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