On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 22:09 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > I have a Dell Latitude E6410 with an nVidia graphics card, using the > nouveau driver and the GNOME desktop on F17. > > Recently, the laptop screen stopped blanking when idle in X mode. I've > modified the screen-blank settings, to no avail. If I switch to a > virtual console, blanking works fine. It's possible that the change > occurred with a kernel update or an X update, but the nouveau driver > hasn't been updated since June. > > Any hints what might have changed or what I might look for to get it > working again? > > TIA. > I created a new user and tried logging in with that id, and the screen blanks as expected. So the problem is some configuration setting in my regular userid. But I have no idea what that setting might be. It doesn't seem to be anything accessible through GNOME settings or gconf-editor. Any suggestion about where to look would be appreciated. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
