[Bltk-discussion] xset on SuSE Linux 10.1

[Len B. <len...@in...>]

I'm having trouble with LCD blanking on a recently installed SL10.1 laptop (T40/Radeon).
It blanks the screen even when I tell it not to.

I've disabled the screen saver in Personal Settings/Appearances & Themes/Screen Saver
by un-checking "Start automatically"

In YaST/Hardware/Graphics Card and Monitor
Monitor is LCD 1024x768
and I un-checked "Activate DPMS"

YaST power management GUI doesn't seem to have a section on display control.

CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE and re-started X

However,
$ xset q
indicates that DPMS is ON
with standby 600 suspend 1200, off 1800 seconds.

when i pull out the AC plug, this switches to
standby: 120 suspend: 180 off: 300

$ xset -dpms
switches DPMS off, however, it is re-enabled, and the
timeouts above are restored on an AC/DC plug event.
(such as when i unplug AC to start bltk)

I killed acpid, so there are no ACPI AC/DC plug events,
but a few seconds after a plug event, X still reports
the battery state change, and it still restores
the xset dpms values, even though the GUI
has DPMS disabled.

So something in the GUI is poking around setting this state.
How/what to kill to make this system do what I ask it to?

thanks,
-Len