Re: unwanted screen blanking

[Paul Greene <pauljgreene comcast net>]

That should have been a no brainer; I think I was up too long without 
sleep. (starting an FTP install at 2:00 a.m. will do that I suppose).

Thanks

PG

At 04:18 AM 6/2/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> Did you check the BIOS settings for power saving?
>
> On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Paul Greene wrote:
>
> > I just installed 7.3 on an IBM T21 Thinkpad. All went well except for one
> > little gotcha.
> >
> > The screen goes blank every 5 minutes. Moving the mouse doesn't bring the
> > screen bank; only pressing a key on the keyboard brings the screen back.
> >
> > I've been digging through all the menus in Gnome trying to find either a
> > screensaver parameter somewhere (there is a screensaver set, but it's set
> > for 20 minutes, not 5), and trying to find something possibly related to
> > laptop utilities.
> >
> > I'm sure it's something simple, but I just can't figure it out.
> >
> > Anyone have a suggestion?
> >
> > PG