Video problem

[Renaud (Ron) Olgiati]

The scene: A brand new installation of 2009.1, with KDE 3.5, on several boxes
built around an Asus MB with Nvidia video built in.

The plot: after some time without any activity, the screen goes black; waking
up the box with any K or M activity gives a screen that is bright to the
point of illegibility.

Only a complete reboot, à la MS Windows, restores the display to a useful
setting.

I have already disabeled the screensaver from the Desktop settings; any other
suggestion ?
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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[Eugeni Dodonov]

Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:

> The scene: A brand new installation of 2009.1, with KDE 3.5, on several boxes
> built around an Asus MB with Nvidia video built in.
>
> The plot: after some time without any activity, the screen goes black; waking
> up the box with any K or M activity gives a screen that is bright to the
> point of illegibility.
>
> Only a complete reboot, à la MS Windows, restores the display to a useful
> setting.
>
> I have already disabeled the screensaver from the Desktop settings; any other
> suggestion ?

Do you have a power management app running (xfce-power-management or
gnome or kde one)?

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Eugeni Dodonov

[Renaud (Ron) Olgiati]

On Sunday 09 August 2009, my mailbox was graced by a missive
 from Eugeni Dodonov <eugeni@...> who wrote:

> Do you have a power management app running (xfce-power-management or
> gnome or kde one)?

Thanks for the pointer, I'll look at this first thing tomorrow morning when I
get to the office. (which alas has no internet access yet  ;-3(
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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[Renaud (Ron) Olgiati]

On Sunday 09 August 2009, my mailbox was graced by a missive
 from "Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI" <renaud@...> who wrote:

> > Do you have a power management app running (xfce-power-management or
> > gnome or kde one)?
>
> Thanks for the pointer, I'll look at this first thing tomorrow morning when
> I get to the office. (which alas has no internet access yet  ;-3(

The only thing I found running was APCI; stopped it, rebooted without APCI,
and the same problem comes again; any other idea ?
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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[Renaud (Ron) Olgiati]

The problem has finally been solved by adding the PLF repositories (A big
thank you to easyurpmi) and installing the latest proprietary Nvidia video
driver.

My thanks to all who helped.
 
Ron.
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