Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:25:55 +0100 (CET) | From | Maciej Zenczykowski <> | Subject | Re: A7N8X (Deluxe) Madness |
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> > I'd guess one is locking up due to hard disk load, > > and the other is locking up due to automatic suspend/standby issues. > > Can you verify that the ac kernel isn't locking up due to a 'screensaver' > > type problem? > > Interesting question. I also thought about that one. However, > regarding X, the machine sometimes crashes before the X Server > screensaver (nothing special there, just the built in one that turns > the screen black) is clearing the screen and sometimes afterwards. If > it crashes afterwards, I can of course not see when it crashed, since > I don't see the clock on the screen anymore. > > And there's nothing else which I could think of. I have resetted the > spinout time for the harddisks to "never" (for different reasons) and > I don't think that there's any power saving stuff enabled in BIOS > setup. I'll check that. However, I'm afraid there really isn't any > screensaver or powersaving thing within my system, of course for the > standard X screensaver, which doesn't seem related to it.
Indeed however I didn't mean the X server xscreensaver and family - I meant the BIOS DPMS, kernel console saver, etc functionality. I had this kind of problem with my stationary computer (it locked solid when the screen was blanked) with some older kernel version (around 2.4.9). I think kernel screen saveing can be turned off with some sort of escape code...
indeed: $ man console_codes /timeout gives: ESC [ 9 ; n ] where n is screen blank timeout in minutes ESC [ 13 ] to unblank ESC [ 14 ; n ] to set the VESA powerdown interval in minutes so try something like echo -e "\e[13]\e[9;10080]\e[14;10080]" to make it blank after a week and see if it still locks. You can also try turning of VESA/DPMS blanking in the Bios.
Cheers, MaZe.
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