X and Fluxbox :: Screen Saver Question



Well yes, if your hardware setup does not support blanking, there is really no way to implement it...

There may be a dos program you can download off somewhere in which you can change BIOS options (if it's not in CMOS setup) - some other laptop users had to use these to change theirs.

I had suggested xscreensaver in response to this:
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As an alternative, anyone know if i can change the standard big X picture to a picture of complete black wall to simulate a screen off.
Hi ^thehatsrule^, thanks for the help. The screensaver at least helps.

I may not made it clear. My BIOS does support screen power management. But I guess the machine must too old and the HW control would not be detected by DSL.

Anyway, a 100MHz with 400MB HD can be used as a wireless WEB broswer, it is already amazing. Thank you DSL.
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My BIOS does support screen power management. But I guess the machine must too old and the HW control would not be detected by DSL.
That's probably just TinyX.  Does blanking work without X (ie runlevel 2, or chvt 1)?  Alternatively if you really want to, is to install the full XF86 (which may be too much for you machine) where it offers a full set of screen power, dpms, etc. options.  Having your HW support "screen power management" may only support 1 of those options...
Just to report back what I got so far.

After many hours, I concluded that xset s 1, xset s blank, etc just would not work for Toshiba Satellite 110CT.

So using cron job, I kill the x server and go back to console mode, and used commends:

setterm -powersave on
setterm -powersave powerdown
setterm -blank
seterm -powerdown

I would never figure out which of four works, so i run them all.

The screen still remains on, but at least it is a complete blank one (in blank too). Good enough for now. If i would later figured out how to create a complete blankscreen saver to run with xscreensaver, that will be even better.

Thank you all for your help.

Happy DSL ...
Hi, new to the forum.
I have DSL running from a flash drive on a p 200 with 64 mb of ram, and I'm really impressed at how efficient it is, it even sets up the isa sb16 sound card.

I know there is probably a post about this, but I don't want the monitor to turn off. How do I stop this function?

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