Comments on: Workaround for Feisty screensaver bug

By: Red Oscar

Red Oscar — Sun, 25 May 2008 08:55:03 +0000

On my Mepis computer, I have a small eterm that I keep sticky on the desktop and toggle between the two display power management states:

xset dpms 0 0 60

xset -dpms

The first command will turn off the monitor in 60 seconds. The second disables monitor poweroff. Naturally, you can set the 60 second value to anything you desire. I would think this should work in Ubuntu as well. This way you don’t have to disable dpms in your xorg.conf.

Red

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:33:38 +0000

@Allo2u
Thanks a lot. I had my problem solved already, but I appreciate your help.

By: Allo2u

Allo2u — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:10:31 +0000

@ Ricardo:
Just copy the original configuration over the edited conf by typing the following on the command-line:

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.orig /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Now reload the configuration by rebooting or just type

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

to restart it.

@ admin, please update ‘sudp’ with ‘sudo’ in the first command.

By: Eliena Andrews

Eliena Andrews — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:15:35 +0000

that’s the bug … thanks for sharing with us….

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:04:45 +0000

I messed up!
I used solution 1, but with gedit, and when I restarted my system Ubuntu doesn’t load graphic mode. It shows an error (no monitor found).
I tried editing the xorg.conf from the command prompt and recovery mode (with nano), but it seems the file doesn’t exist…
Any workaround on this??? Thanks a lot

By: M Henri Day

M Henri Day — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:35:13 +0000

A workaround is fine, but the problem is just that it permanently disables power management. What would be nice to have is a button which would allow one to temporarily disable power management when, e g, watching a video that is longer than 20 minutes, after which it could be restored by clicking the button again. Any ideas on how to obtain this good cigar ?…

Henri