[vox-tech] Laptop Going to Sleep In Console Mode

[Ken Herron]

--On Wednesday, December 03, 2003 08:32:18 -0800 Daniel Hurt 
<dwhurt@ucdavis.edu> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I have a Dell Inspiron 2600 Laptop and I recently noticed a feature
> that is quite annoying and cannot figure out how to turn it off.  When
> working in the console, about every 5 minutes or so, the console will
> go to sleep.  The only way to wake the display back up is to switch to
> tty7 where the X-Windows session is running and then switch back to the
> terminal that I was working on.

Just a guess, but check your X screensaver settings. Maybe display power 
management is being activated and shutting off the video hardware.

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Kenneth Herron        Kherron@newsguy.com       916-366-7338