[K12OSN] Screensaver crashes screen with IBM Netvista thin clients

[Rita Gibson]

Can you allocate more ram to the video in the bios?

Rita Gibson
RMSELTech

Almquist Burke wrote:
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> Sounds like a screensaver or video driver issue. I'd make sure you 
> have the screensaver disabled, use DPMS if you want to save power. 
> There used to be options for standby, suspend, and turning off in the 
> LTSP 4 lts.conf file. I'm not sure if they are there anymore in 5, I 
> haven't had to adjust mine yet!  In LTSP 5 we might just be using the 
> settings in the GNOME/KDE display managers. If I were you, I'd disable 
> standby and suspend, IMHO, just sent the off time to something 
> reasonable like 15 mins.  I've always found DPMS off to be the most 
> reliably implemented in all different hardware, though power 
> management is less of a problem with hardware than it used to be.
>
> Google lts.conf and DPMS and you'll get some good information.
>
> You might try these lines in your lts.conf file:
>         X_DPMS  = Y
>         X_DPMS_STANDBYTIME = 0
>         X_DPMS_SUSPENDTIME = 0
>         X_DPMS_OFFTIME     = 15
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> On Oct 2, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Tom Wolfe wrote:
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>> When our IBM Netvista p3 thin clients are unused for some time -- 5 
>> mins or so -- the screen will go black. When you hit the space bar or 
>> move the mouse the most you get it a pointer arrow, which moves with 
>> the mouse. The rest of the screen remains black. The only way to 
>> recover is CTRL-SHIFT-BACKSPACE.
>>
>> Any suggestions on how to solve this would be appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tom Wolfe
>>
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