Tiny Core Linux
Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Topic started by: cast-fish on January 29, 2014, 02:31:12 AM
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hello
Please can you help me to prevent the annoying screensavers or screenblanking of tcl
i typed
xset s off (in a terminal)
but the machine still seems to blank the screen after maybe 20 mins?
Vince.
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I think this link will help you
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,5647.msg30318.html#msg30318
Malik Awan
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Hi cast-fish
Check your BIOS. Some machines have settings to shut down various peripherals after inactivity.
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hello
it seems the command listed above here, will come into operation, after you restart X.
this machine does not seem to have -dpms handling or such like.
The bios is 13 years old. (although it may have some power features i don't remember
seeing any
Vince.
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xset s off (in a terminal)
An xterm or a real terminal?
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it seems the command listed above here, will come into operation, after you restart X.
No, 'xset' will only apply to current X11 server.
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Hello
so is it true that if we put the command
xset s off
into the .Xsession file (it should stop the screensaver for every boot of tcl)
The screensaver seems to kick in when i am watching a movie in VLC or MPLAYER.
DO i put that command into that file in a similar fashion to the other comman examples.
many seem to start with a HYPHEN or a square open bracket
thanks
Vince.
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There is no sense in adding 'xset' to any file before you have verified it does what you want manually.
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Hello
Don't really know.
I have a standard TCL boot from cdrom. I want to stop the screensaver kicking in.
how do i do this?
what is the command?
where do i put the command?
thanks
Vince.
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You already said in OP you did, but you never answered if by "terminal" you meant an xterm.
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not sure
It is a "terminal" that is selected from the "system tools" menu.
So my question is compounded now.
1) How do i discover if the "screensaver" is active at all? what is the command and where do i type it to discover this?
2) If the answer to 1) is yes. How do i dissable this screensaver. What is the command and where do i type it for dissabling.
many thanks.
Vince.
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1)
xset q
2)
xset s off
xset -dpms
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thanks a lot
it appears that DPMS was also causing an issue
it was enabled and had
Standby 1200 secs Suspend 1800 off 2400
i had experienced the laptop completely shutting down where it would not come back
to life at all..... (it just had a dull screen)
clearly that was dpms causing that.... (switched all the dpms off now aswell as the screensaver)
i could not really find it explained clearly anyplace......i mean about dpms's variuos settings
which still seem to work even on a 14 year old laptop and bios.
all sorted out now
another thing that can go unotticed with TCL is the cpu governor and throttling of the frequency
for saving..... which is applied to your chip. It would be nice if people knew about that if they needed to and how to enable or disable it.
VInce.
Thanks
Vince.
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another thing that can go unotticed with TCL is the cpu governor and throttling of the frequency
for saving..... which is applied to your chip. It would be nice if people knew about that if they needed to and how to enable or disable it.
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:cpu_frequency_scaling_basics
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it was enabled and had
Standby 1200 secs Suspend 1800 off 2400
Those seem to be default values as expected.
i could not really find it explained clearly anyplace......i mean about dpms's variuos settings
which still seem to work even on a 14 year old laptop and bios.
http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xset.1.html
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another thing that can go unotticed with TCL is the cpu governor and throttling of the frequency
for saving..... which is applied to your chip. It would be nice if people knew about that if they needed to and how to enable or disable it.
Perhaps this could be of use to you:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,15110.msg86851.html#msg86851
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thankyou poodle
these topics are somewhat interesting
it seems that dpms only comes into play when you are running xorg
the best settings for me are "xset dpms 0 0 40" which turns the screen off to below 8 watts power usage after 40 seconds
when watching a movie, dpms is totally turned off as a feature "xset -dpms"
to turn on the "OFF saving feature" at wil then........ "xset dpms force off"
wiki says that the 4 dpms settings are
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_Display_Power_Management_Signaling
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it seems that dpms only comes into play when you are running xorg
I seem to remember that dpms never was available on Xvesa/Kdrive/tinyX servers beyond from Core.
the best settings for me are "xset dpms 0 0 40" which turns the screen off to below 8 watts power usage after 40 seconds
I suspect those values would only apply to CRT monitors.
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yes poodle
what is the remaining power managements systems of tcl?
is it "acpi"?
what i mean to say is.....are there any other extra ways of managing the power
your laptop consumes with tcl?....(apart form dpms which seems to be just screen related)
i realize that throtting the cpu already happens.....
is it true to say that TCL already defaults to loading up some power management extension and
what is that extension?
how do you know if your laptop supports acpi etc?
thanks
Vince.
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You are hijacking the subject of your own thread...
You may want to look into laptop-mode-tools.tcz & powertop.tcz.
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ok thanks
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I forgot to mention suspend-utils
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thanks thanks
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Hell
could only get this half working
it suspends the machine. (kind of hibernates i think)
It wakes the machine back up with a keypress, but does not re-awaken the connected USB devices.
s2ram
never tried s2disk but if you know an answer would apprecite it.
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See Reply #19.
No relation to original post whatsoever, feel free to start a new thread with specific subject.