kde monitor power saving setting

Thomas Olsen tanghus at gmail.com
Sat Jun 14 10:53:12 UTC 2008


On Friday 13 June 2008 21:31:02 John Pierce wrote:
> Hello list members!
>
> I have kubuntu 8.0.4 installed with all updates in place and everytime
> I reboot the machine the power saving settings in system settings ->
> monitor and display reverts
> back to the enabled state.  This laptop has an nvidia 6150 go chip and
> every time the monitor
> blanks out the screen becomes unusable when it wakes up, forcing a
> ctrl alt bksp to get back to
> the login screen.
>
> I am curious why the settings would revert back after a reboot.
>
> The nvidia 114 series drivers never did this, the 173 drivers do not,
> but the 169 series which is
> the current set does it every time.

I have almost the same problem with my Dell monitor. I've set it to turn off 
the monitor after 30 minutes in the "Monitor & Display" settings but it also 
reverts after reboot and sets it to 5 hours.
Where are these settings saved?

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  Thomas Olsen




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