thinkpad t40p 4.9-stable as of friday, all cvsupped and portupgraded to death SYMPTOM: if i leave the desktop alone for maybe an hour, the screen is blanked and i can not get it back, even by killing X. i have to reboot the machine to get the screen back bios has screen blanking turned off does not happen when X has not been started, i.e. running as a non-X user happens in gnome with screensaver set to DisableScreenSaver still happens if i kill the xscreensaver process xset has dpms disabled same with tvtwm as window mangler instead of gnome help, i am running out of goat entrails! randy
> thinkpad t40p > 4.9-stable as of friday, all cvsupped and portupgraded to death > > SYMPTOM: if i leave the desktop alone for maybe an hour, the screen > is blanked and i can not get it back, even by killing X. i have to > reboot the machine to get the screen backyou can ctl-alt-f1 to switch to a text console, then fn-f7 to turn off the lcd, then fn-f7 to turn it back on, then alt-f9 to go back to x. at least, that's how i've been limping along on my t40 (not t40p). russ
>> SYMPTOM: if i leave the desktop alone for maybe an hour, the screen >> is blanked and i can not get it back, even by killing X. i have to >> reboot the machine to get the screen back > you can ctl-alt-f1 to switch to a text console, > then fn-f7 to turn off the lcd, then fn-f7 to turn > it back on, then alt-f9 to go back to x.that is absolutely disgusting. but it works! thank you, thank you! now i wonder what the actual problem is. randy