[ltp] USB keyboard with T30 - screen blanks after 1 hour?

[Greg Macek]

The workaround would be nice, if I actually had a PS/2 port on the
machine itself. I currently do not have a port replicator or docking
station either. 

Thanks for the pointers on xset. Perhaps this will be somewhat useful
for the near future anyway. 

Greg

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 15:12, William Thompson wrote:
> Workaround:
>   I had to use the USB mouse through the PS/2 port adapter to keep the
> laptop usable.
>  Otherwise I had to do the same thing you did, regardless of use.
> 
>   I too would be interested if there is a way to tell APM/ACPI that
> there is mouse and keyboard usage from the USB ports, not just your
> standard PS2 mouse or keyboard ports.
> 
> 
> xset commands:
>    To control Energy Star (DPMS) features:
>         -dpms      Energy Star features off
>         +dpms      Energy Star features on
>          dpms [standby [suspend [off]]]
>               force standby
>               force suspend
>               force off
>               force on
>               (also implicitly enables DPMS features)
>               a timeout value of zero disables the mode
> 
>     For screen-saver control:
>          s [timeout [cycle]]  s default    s on
>          s blank              s noblank    s off
>          s expose             s noexpose
>          s activate           s reset
> 
> xset q (query) displays the following for my settings
> DPMS (Energy Star):
>   Standby: 7200    Suspend: 7200    Off: 14400
>   DPMS is Disabled
> Screen Saver:
>   prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
>   timeout:  0    cycle:  0
> 
> 
> 
> > I just recently starting an external keyboard (Apple USB keyboard - we
> > had extras in the office) with my T30 and like it except for the fact
> > that if I don't press a key on the notebook the screen will blank on
> > me.
> >The same happens if, by some odd chance, I only use the USB mouse for
> > an
> >hour or if I come back from a meeting I have to press a key or move the
> >trackpoint to bring the screen back. The USB mouse doesn't seem to wake
> >up anything in X or the BIOS (but I'm not sure what's actually
> >controlling the screen blanking.) Does anybody have any ideas as to how
> >I can work around this? I'm using SuSE Pro 8.2 on a T30 2366-41U.
> >Thanks. 
> 
> >-- 
> >Greg Macek | Senior IT Manager
> >Marketing Resources, Inc.
> 
> >it-guy@mrichi.com | http://www.mrichi.com
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