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Thread: Power management, always blanking screen?!

  1. #1
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    Power management, always blanking screen?!

    Hi,

    I have an ASUS A6 series notebook with a 256MB ATI Radeon X1600 built in.
    I am running Ubuntu - Hardy

    The problem I am having is that regardless of what my power management settings say, my screen always blanks after 5minutes of being idle.
    I am happy for the screen to blank when the power adapter is not plugged in, but if the adapter is plugged in, I dont want the screen to blank out.

    Below is a screen shot of my power settings and screen saver settings:


    Is there some other configuration hiding somewhere?
    Appreciate any help.

    Thanks,
    occhiso

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    Re: Power management, always blanking screen?!

    Do you have ATI Catalyst installed? If you do check it. If not install it and check it. There may be a switch in there.

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    Re: Power management, always blanking screen?!

    Try this:
    Code:
    gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
    Copy and paste this into the file :
    Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "BlankTime" "0"
    Option "StandbyTime" "0"
    Option "SuspendTime" "0"
    Option "OffTime" "0"
    EndSection
    Also, look at all of the gnome power-manager settings with:
    Code:
    gconf-editor
    The path is /apps/gnome-power-manager

    If that doesn't work, it could have something to do with ACPI.

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    Re: Power management, always blanking screen?!

    Hi Temüjin,

    I pasted that code into my xorg.conf file and it looks like it fixed it.
    Thanks for your help

    occhiso

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