Nothing on screenForum: Other Help Topics Topic: Nothing on screen started by: Chouette_bis Posted by Chouette_bis on April 26 2005,08:43
I left my computer (dsl from hdd) running from yesterday to today. Just now i saw my monitor was not showing anything. It works fine because i tested it using another computer. I had this before but then i just moved the mouse, so the display came back on screen. Im guessing its in sleepmode or something. Does anyone know how to get things running again of my screen?If an program becomes very slow or gets stuck im used to press ctrl+alt+delete to get in taskmanager to close applications or use alt+f4. Apparantly this does not work on dsl. Does it use keyboard combinations to close things of or restart the computer? Posted by adssse on April 26 2005,13:27
I am pretty knew to this so someone can probably help you more than I can but I know Xvesa server is believed to have a memory leak, which may be leading to your problem. You can try switching to Xfbdev server using X Setup in the menu which may work for you. It may just be that the memory leak eats up all your memory because I was having the same problem.
Posted by Chouette_bis on April 26 2005,14:12
yours will do as any other because i am clueless surrounding dsl or Linux in general. Its a miracle that i even managed to install it on hdd. So if i want to try out your solution i would have to restart the computer manually by pressing the reset button? cause it wont do anything else right now. Where do i find Xfbdev?
Suppose its the second one, the one of memory leaking, then what? What did you do about it? Posted by cbagger01 on April 26 2005,16:27
Are you using DSL embedded from inside Microsoft Windows?I am not aware of a linux task mangaer in DSL that behaves as you described. Posted by Chouette_bis on April 27 2005,07:06
no i am not using windows at all on the computer where i have dsl
Posted by adssse on April 27 2005,13:47
I am not sure if this is the corrrect solution but I right clicked to bring up the DSL menu and than under "system" I chose "X Setup". Once I did that I selected to use the Xfbdev server, because I was having the same problem. If there is a better way to fix I would love for someone to post it and help both of us out.
Posted by Chouette_bis on April 27 2005,14:04
Well doing nothing wont help me, so i will just restart the computer and try out your solution.
Posted by Chouette_bis on April 27 2005,15:37
he adssse,would you happen to know where i can find Display like in Windows, Control Panel. It occured to me that in Display you could turn on the option of never turning off the monitor. That might solve the problem too. Posted by adssse on April 28 2005,04:17
sorry, I dont know where to find something like that, but someone more knowledgeable on the board probably does.
Posted by Chouette_bis on April 28 2005,08:24
Thanks for your solution anyway, it seems it solved my problem for now. I left the screen yesterday on en just now now looked at it. It looks it did not turned off the monitor or the system eitherway. Im not sure whether somebody moved the mouse or did anything about. Nor do i remember what i did last. But today i will monitor it for at least an hour or 7. Plenty of time to check out if its working accordingly to my wishes. Thanks again.
Posted by ke4nt1 on April 28 2005,15:31
If your speaking of the screen blanking mode..(where monitor goes black after a time, unless mouse is moved) For the GUI, type this into your .xinitrc ABOVE the fluxbox line. xset s off s noblank For the CLI/command line blanking ( No X desktop ) try adding this to your bootlocal.sh file. setterm -term linux -blank 0 >/dev/tty1 This should defeat any screen-saving features on your box. 73 ke4nt Posted by ke4nt1 on June 16 2005,14:51
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