I use KDE 4.2 on a openSUSE 11.1 installation. When I watch streaming video from a website (Hulu - Watch your favorites. Anytime. For free. for example), after about 4-5 minutes, the screen blacks out. It always happens at the most critical parts of the show!! Anyway, I checked all of the powersaving and screensaver settings. I donāt want to completely shut off the powersaving features because my desktop machine runs 24/7. I have it setup as a Media Center with MythTV. Therefore, I bumped up all of the settings I could find to 60 minutes. I still get the screen blacking out after 4-5 minutes. It seems to only happen when Iām watching media on the web. When I watch live tv or recordings on mythtv, it doesnāt black out.
Is there a setting that Iām missing? Any suggestions (other than keep the mouse at my side and jiggle it every so often rotfl! )?
It sounds like you may need to to this
1.Kmenu>Configure Desktop> Display
2.Power Control (it has a lightbulb icon)
3.Uncheck Enable display power management or run them up to 60 min.
If not that on the Screensaver did you uncheck the start automatically box?
Iāll take a look at those settings when I get home tonight, but Iām pretty sure that Iāve already modified those. I want to keep power management and screen saver enabled since I leave the machine running. I just want to make sure itās āaliveā for about 60 minutes before kicking in power saving mode.
If I find that those settings did not help, Iāll try to be more detailed in the next post on what Iāve already tried.
Anyway, I checked all of the powersaving and screensaver settings. I donāt want to completely shut off the powersaving features because my desktop machine runs 24/7. I have it setup as a Media Center with MythTV. Therefore, I bumped up all of the settings I could find to 60 minutes. I still get the screen blacking out after 4-5 minutes. It seems to only happen when Iām watching media on the web. When I watch live tv or recordings on mythtv, it doesnāt black out.