my move to Mageia

[Mord Behar]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com>wrote:

> After 14 years of using Mandrake/Mandriva I made the move to Mageia 3
> on 2 boxes. So far, I'm very satisfied - I feel really "at home".
> However, as can be expected, there are some minor problems so I guess
> I'll be looking for help in the next few days. Here's my first problem:
>
> I set up energy saving in the KDE System Settings on both computers.
> On one of them it works fine and the screen shuts off after 10
> minutes. On the other computer it worked for 2 days and then for no
> apparent reason stopped working.
>
> I've tried playing with xset -dpms or xset +dpms. I also looked for
> other setting that might be related, but no luck.
>
> I don't think it's a hardware problem because sreen shut off worked for
> 2 days.
>
> Any ideas where to look?
>

I've encountered that when my laptop overheats.
Try gkrellm for a GUI frontend to your available sensors. It's available in
the Mageia repos ( I use Mageia too, and have been from the beginning)


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