[CLUE-Tech] Re:"getting insanely frustrated"

[Mike Staver]

> Could you summarize what you have done? I recall many suggestions, but not
> the results. I'm assuming that if setterm did the trick, we wouldn't be
> having this converstaion. IIRC, you already checked your BIOS settings?
> Have you recompiled the kernel with the power management stuff turned off?

You bet - so far this is exactly what I have done:

1) Checked the bios - every instance where powermanagement was
referenced, I shut it off.

2) Made sure apmd was not running, and would not be running the next
time I rebooted.

3) Run the following commands:
setterm -powersave off
setterm -blank 0

I also added those commands to my .bashrc file, which may have been a
mistake.  I should probably move them to my rc.local file.  Either way,
the commands are being run, but my screen still goes blank.  This
happens in both X and at the console level, so it probably is in the
kernel, but since I didn't compile my own kernel, I don't know how to
remove it without recompiling.  It is worth noting though that since I
have added the commands to my .bashrc file, everytime I open up a
terminal window in gnome, it spits out the following error:

cannot (un)set powersave mode

Why would it be saying that?  My guess is that maybe it's being set
somewhere else in a config file I'm unaware of, and it's ignoring my
.bashrc file and anywhere else that I run the commands.

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                                -Mike Staver
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