From: Peter Humphrey <prh@gotadsl.co.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel 2.6.21 problem
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:04:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704292304.23222.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704291349.08002.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
On Sunday 29 April 2007 12:49:07 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> ACPI and switching the monitor off are two completly unrelated problems.
> ACPI is not evil - and some machines even need ACPI to boot. There is no
> reason to not have ACPI in the kernel.
I find it all somewhat confusing. APM, ACPI, others...
> And monitor - that is something for your xorg.conf and xset.
Before I took dpms out of xorg.conf the monitor was being blanked after
about five minutes. If kdm was still showing its login screen at that time
the machine would lock solid. Having removed dpms the period is now much
longer, but I still get a blank screen eventually.
--
Rgds
Peter Humphrey
Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-29 10:37 [gentoo-amd64] Kernel 2.6.21 problem Peter Humphrey
2007-04-29 11:49 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-04-29 15:54 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2007-04-29 16:14 ` Wil Reichert
2007-04-29 22:04 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2007-04-29 22:44 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-04-29 18:25 ` Mark Knecht
2007-04-29 19:05 ` William Tetrault
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