Unable to disable screen saver (power save?) on Suse 10.2

[webwidejosh]

I recently switched from Ubuntu to Suse because a program kept crashing.

Now I find myself plauged with my screen shutting off. Very often. I have disabled anything to do with screen saving in Linux.

I find however that it doesn't really matter if the screen saver is on or off, it will power down the monitor.

I have disabled all power saving features I can find in Linux and in my BIOS.

I did not have this problem with older versions of Suse which I used before Ubuntu or 10.2.

Thanks!

[chill92]

I have SuSe v9.1 and get screen savers real quick too. While I don't know how to extend the wait time, You can get rid of the plethora of savers by:

su root if not already from command line.

cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xscreensaver/config

mkdir (choose a name) like SS.hide.xxx where xxx is your initials.

mv *xml to that new directory.

cd to it and move one back up.

There is a screensaver time set in CDE, so KDE should have one on it's console configuration menu somewhere.

You may have to go into your HOME/.kde/share/config directory and look into the many files ending in "rc" and find the setting parameters there.

Let know how it went.
Chill92

[gogalthorp]

I have the same problem but I know what it is just don't know how to turn it off.

There is a terminal screen saver built into the kernel. At some point I was experimenting and manged to turn it on. I now can not find where to turn it off.

In my case I have a normal GUI screen saver set in KDE and the screen does not blank but If I turn that one off after about 10 minutes it blanks or if I set a mouse position to stop the GUI screen saver like the top left corner it then blanks the screen after its timeout. Interestingly if I have a VMware server window open neither the terminal or the GUI screen savers trigger.

[chill92]

While researching other stuff I found the screensave time changing method.

From the KDE tool bar choose control center.
When it finishes launching, click on appearance and themes.
Then click on screen saver.

The time settings are on the right. I changed mine to 30 minutes for saver to kick
on.

There is a power control on the panel too. I allow for powersaver on/off and
time setting changes.

If those don't work then ....

And you want to get rid of the power management (I haven't looked into my
kernel) but ...

As root cd to /etc/init.d/rc2.d and remove the symbolic link that points back up
to /etc/init.d/powersaved script. In my case I have an S12 and K10 named link.

These also reside in rc3.d and rc5.d. These links have to be removed too.

This prevents the power save from starting at boot time, thus no run time.

Remember what the names were that you removed by listing them in some
text note file in case you want to turn them back on.

Right next to the powersaved in /etc/init.d where you can find it. I usually
just ls -l S12* K10* > ../powersaved.cwh. from the rc2.d directory. Issue the full path of where you were into that same file with pwd >> ../powersaved.cwh. The cwh is my initials so if I ever forget what the name of something I did, I can always remember my initials and do a system wide find.

There are some powerfail entries in /etc/inittab too. These run the /etc/init.d
powerfail that sits right beside powerfaild. I did not find any man pages on
either but believe the powerfail is for actual loss of electrical voltage.