2 Questions about Redhat8 HELP!

[HazyBone]

Ok, I have 2 questions. I am running Redhat8 KDE Desktop.
1.) I noticed after X minutes my monitor shuts off. I have tryed searching google and every message board post I could find and I have found no solution for this. And yes I checked the Controls Center Power Control.

2.) I have a riptide sound card in my HP, and I found drivers for it, and I got the drivers up and working, but whenever I am doing anything like playing songs in XMMs or using GAIM and have the sounds turned on, this weird noise starts to come out of my speakers, and sometimes my music either slows down or speeds up.

If you can help me out in any way I would be very happy! Thanks.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by HazyBone
And yes I checked the Controls Center Power Control.


If you checked "Control Center>Power Control>Energy>Enable Display Energy Saving", then uncheck it or disable all categories and uncheck, then click "apply". If this doesn't work go into your bios and re-set to your specifications.

[HazyBone]

I tryed everything you said, and it still does that. And instead of my screen saver coming on, it also goes to this plain black screen.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by HazyBone
I tryed everything you said, and it still does that. And instead of my screen saver coming on, it also goes to this plain black screen.

Now you said in your first post your monitor goes "OFF". Now your saying your screensaver doesn't come "ON". What exactly is the sequence of events that you want you monitor and computer to exhibit when there is no activity of either one.? If you tried everything I said then your computer is out of whack. It's a hardware problem, not Linux. When your computer goes into "Standby" or "Suspend" there is no screen saver. Some systems call these "Sleep" and "Hibernate". You have to disable the bios settings and enable the Control Panel settings or disable Control Panel setings and enable bios settings. Can't mix and match the two.

[HazyBone]

What I want is I want my screen saver to come on, but it doesnt it goes to a black screen. I disbaled all my settings in my bios and I have and in the Control Center I tryed enabling it like you said to use that and then disabling Standy, Suspend and poweroff, and I still dont get my screen saver, I get this black window. And no, its not a hardware problem. I ran other ditros on here that did not do this.

[JohnT]

Try the command

man xscreensaver


this might help you somwhat.

[sir_tal]

I am at work so I can't try the "man xscreensaver" to see what options I have, but I had the same problem. I was told that if I am using the generic nVidia display drivers for my nVidia card, it will do that. They told me to install the nVidia drivers from the website, and that should do the trick...problem is, I am using a kernel that they don't have a driver for yet, so I had to build the NVIDIA_kernel-###.src.rpm file, and something didn't work right...luckily it didn't half-way install the file or anything like that, so everything is working still. I'll have to try again after work today, but if you have an nVidia Graphics Card, you may want to check that out.

-Chris

[JohnT]

I've got an nvidia card and my screen saver works in all three distros I'm running, using the generic included "nv" driver. Nothing from Nvidia's site.

[sir_tal]

This is really starting to bug me. I'm running Red Hat 8.0 on an AMD Athlon XP 2000+. What processor are you running it on. Maybe it's a CPU problem. (I seem to remember reading about an Athlon problem with the screensaver, but I had bigger problems to deal with at the time.)

-Chris

[BluTARius]

might be in your monitor options. check your monitor for power save settings.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by sir_tal
This is really starting to bug me. I'm running Red Hat 8.0 on an AMD Athlon XP 2000+. What processor are you running it on. Maybe it's a CPU problem. (I seem to remember reading about an Athlon problem with the screensaver, but I had bigger problems to deal with at the time.)

-Chris

Nope. 1gig Athlon, here, of course I'm not running the RH part of that equation.