Re: Power management questions

On Thu, 27 May 2010 14:34:15 +1000 Angus Beath <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> 
> another question regarding the Sun Blade 1500. I have X working now
> (thank you!) and while the screen colour depth and resolution aren't
> perfect it is useable and I am therefore happy. The problem I have
> now is that if I leave the workstation unattended for long enough,
> the monitor goes into power saving mode and there is nothing I can do
> to rouse it from that state. The monitor itself is normally quite
> capable of handling going in and out of a standby mode as I use it
> with Linux/Windows 7 from time to time. This is not restricted to X
> sessions I must note - if it's left at the console it will go black
> and nothing I do (key press/ mouse wiggle) bring it back to life. The
> system is still up - SSH sessions remain viable and tell me it's
> working but I can't get anything on the screen at all.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas? I've searched the OpenBSD FAQ's but I
> will admit that the volume of data there is somewhat overwhelming at
> times. I've also checked SunSolve and haven't really found much joy
> there either.

I had to look at your previous messages to *guess* what you're running,
this is why a dmesg is always nice.

What are your wsconsctl.conf settings ?
	$ wsconsctl

If you read the following:
	http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html#Blanker

Your description makes it seem like 'display.kbdact=' is set to 'off'

	jcr 

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