How To disable sleep mode in 8.10?

[Amit Joshi]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Jury Levykin <jury.levykin at gmail.com>wrote:

> Screen saver timing is 10 minutes.
>
> I have noticed that screen saver (in 8.10) did not wake up after mouse
> move event only after key press on keyboard.
> It is more possible screen saver have bugs.
>
> I will try use -noacpi today in the evening.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
>
> --
> 2008/11/11 Kim Briggs:
> > Is it possible there could be a bug in the screen saver that is
> > causing it to turn off more than the screen?  What is the timing on
> > the screen saver?
> >
> > Also, I'm pretty sure you can disable sleep mode, but I only know a
> > "nuke the site from orbit" method:  In the file /boot/grub/menu.lst,
> > you can add the option "noacpi" to leave out the Advanced
> > Configuration and Power Interface completely.
> >
> > title           Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic   -noacpi
> >
> > Hopefully, you get a better solution that that.
> <trim>
>

I use KDE and I haven't come across a screensaver that responds to mouse
movements. So be assured that its not a bug.
I think to wake up you should have a resume=/dev/hdxx option in your kernel
line (where /dev/hdxx is your Swap partition). Try it out and see if it
works.

-- 
Regards,
Amit Joshi
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