Re: Power management questions

Ah, my apologies for being obtuse. I will try that suggestion and let the
list know.

Angus

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 6:57 PM, J.C. Roberts <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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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