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Re: [Wlug] Blanking screen blanking @#$!

by Chuck Homic

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:01:04AM -0500, Marc Hughes wrote: > I thought that the VT blanking was separate from the X blanking. I'm sure it is. :) But I'm desperate. Also, instinct tells me that if there's any kind of "power management" blanking, it would work regardless of what video mode I'm in. (And with an LCD, there's no way to really tell the difference between a blank screen, and power saving.) > Any chance you're running X in frame buffer mode? Maybe then the VT > blanking matters? Just a shot in the dark. Nope, straight up XFree86 to the hardware. Really all I need is more ways to turn off screen blanking in Linux and/or X. I'll try 'em all and report which one actually worked for me. ;) But I've exhausted (I think) setterm and xset. What else is there? -Chuck

Feb. 3, 2003

RE: [Wlug] Blanking screen blanking @#$!

by Marc Hughes

I thought that the VT blanking was separate from the X blanking. Any chance you're running X in frame buffer mode? Maybe then the VT blanking matters? Just a shot in the dark. -----Original Message----- From: wlug-admin(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Homic Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 9:49 AM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] Blanking screen blanking @#$! On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 02:56:54PM -0500, Andy Stewart wrote: > > Turning off the #!$@ screen saver! > > Are you running KDE, GNOME, or something else? In KDE, you turn off > the > screen saver in the control center. Others? I don't know. The answer would fall squarely on "something else." Currently it's afterstep, but I don't think the WM is a factor because it happens when I'm using no WM at all (Hardcore X) or at the VT or anything. I was grepping some kernel sources which led me to the setterm hypothesis, but I'm still nowhere. -Chuck _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Feb. 3, 2003

Re: [Wlug] Blanking screen blanking @#$!

by Chuck Homic

On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 02:56:54PM -0500, Andy Stewart wrote: > > Turning off the #!$@ screen saver! > > Are you running KDE, GNOME, or something else? In KDE, you turn off the > screen saver in the control center. Others? I don't know. The answer would fall squarely on "something else." Currently it's afterstep, but I don't think the WM is a factor because it happens when I'm using no WM at all (Hardcore X) or at the VT or anything. I was grepping some kernel sources which led me to the setterm hypothesis, but I'm still nowhere. -Chuck

Feb. 3, 2003

Re: [Wlug] Booting!

by Charles R. Anderson

If you installed your distribution's packages of Apache and Postgres, or other well-packaged software, it is as simple as: chkconfig httpd on chkconfig postgresql on And you can use the service command to start/stop them at any time too: service httpd start (or stop, status, restart, reload, etc.) This is all done through the magic of SysV-style initscripts: /etc/init.d /etc/rc*.d and on Red Hat systems, this is documented in: /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysvinitfiles On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 03:27:47AM +0700, Aramico wrote: aramico> How can i make these things run automatically at first time of My linux boot aramico> up. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

Feb. 2, 2003

Re: [Wlug] Booting!

by Baris Hasdemir

in my distribution /etc/rc.local is executed at startup I would simply add those lines to that file: apachectl start su james -c "/home/james/tomcat/bin/startup.sh" su postgres -c "/var/lib/pgsql/runpgsql" best wishes, baris On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 03:27:47 +0700 "Aramico" <aramico(a)duahati.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > How can i make these things run automatically at first time of My linux boot > up. > > 1. apachectl start > Run as root > 2. /home/james/tomcat/bin/startup.sh > run as user james > 3. /var/lib/pgsql/runpgsql > run as postgres > > Thanks.

Feb. 2, 2003

Booting!

by Aramico

Hi all, How can i make these things run automatically at first time of My linux boot up. 1. apachectl start > Run as root 2. /home/james/tomcat/bin/startup.sh > run as user james 3. /var/lib/pgsql/runpgsql > run as postgres Thanks.

Feb. 2, 2003

Re: [Wlug] Blanking screen blanking @#$!

by Andy Stewart

On Sunday 02 February 2003 1:58 pm, chuck(a)vvisions.com wrote: > Turning off the #!$@ screen saver! > Are you running KDE, GNOME, or something else? In KDE, you turn off the screen saver in the control center. Others? I don't know. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

Feb. 2, 2003

Blanking screen blanking @#$!

by chuck＠vvisions.com

Howdy, y'all. I'm just inches away from using my wikkid new Fujitsu notebook as a DVD player. After solving the seemingly difficult problems of playing a movie in the first place (xine), playing an encrypted DVD (libdvdcss), getting hardware scaling to work on my ATI (gatos), and enabling the S-video output (atitvout), I'm left with the final daunting challenge: Turning off the #!$@ screen saver! I've tried the following (in this order): setterm -blank 0 setterm -powersave off setterm -powerdown 0 xset s off xset s noblank xset -dpms apm -i (a long shot, which is not compiled in my version) Still my video goes out every 5 minutes. WTF? I don't who or what is turning off my screen, and for what motive. But their treachery must be stopped! Surely someone on this list has the knowledge I need to restore justice. TIA, -Chuck -- Chuck Homic homic(a)ml1.net

Feb. 2, 2003

Re: [Wlug] X on IBM Thinkpad A30

by Tom Guilderson

On 2003.01.28 15:17 bryon3245(a)netzero.com wrote: > would anyone willing to help me get X working on my ThinkPad A30 > running > Gentoo with all the packages on there most current relese. Feeel free > to I have never used Gentoo, and I do not know of any config tools they include that my help you; so my comments are distro independent (they are really all the same in the end - maybe the start of a good flame war!). First thing is to run 'XFree86 -configure' assuming you are running version 4.x.x If this does not work, you will have to manually configure. Start by running 'lspci -vvv' to scan the PCI bus and see what type of card you have etc. Then see if there any good docs (ther are) at http://www.xfree86.org/ You should also go to the following site where there will be links to what others did to get Linux on a particular laptop http://www.linux-in-laptops.net/ibm.html You can also try IBM http://www-1.ibm.com/linux/ or http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/ This should get you started where you can likely get X up and running. Any specific questions, just post to the list. I use a T23 and X runs fine 1024x768 on the LCD panel or 1600x1200 on my Viewsonic flat panel both at 24 bit. So you should have no problem getting the A30 to work. Good Luck! TG

Feb. 1, 2003

hour of gold

by doug waud

Keith Wright wrote: > > From: doug waud <douglas.waud(a)umassmed.edu> > > > > > "An ounce of gold cannot buy an ounce of time." > > > > What will an *hour* of gold get you? > > > > doug > > Well, in General Relativity we often use geometrical units, in > which c = 1 and G = 1/8{\pi}. Using c = 3e10 cm/s, and > G = 6.67e-8 cm^3/g s^2, we get the conversion factor > 1 second = 1.5e34 kg, so an hour of gold would be 5.4e37 kg. > An hour of gold would be quite valuable as a gold > certificate. Taking actual delivery would be dangerous--- > unless you keep it well spread out in a vault with a radius > much more that 1 light-hour = 1 trillion kilometers, your fortune > will collapse into a black hole. Does this have anything to do with the term "golden years" doug

Jan. 30, 2003