[Sheflug] prevent monitor powering down

[Pete Collier <pecb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,
                A computer at work running win95 used by three supervisors, 
recently lost 
some dll files needed to connect to the internet (one of the supervisors does 
a lot of poking about without thinking first he-he) . So I took advantage of 
the situation and  installed SuSE 9.1 on an old second hard drive. Chose SuSE 
because of eye candy looks which would impress these non tech guys. All is 
reasonably well apart from when left long enough, the monitor (gateway 2000 
17") powers down and on reactivating it by moving mouse etc. the display is 
tall and narrow. The only way to get the display correct is to switch the 
monitor off and then back on again, which losses the interest I'm trying to 
generate. I've tried apm=off, acpi=off in grub, I have powersave disabled and 
under screensaver settings in the desktop I have not clicked that the 
screensaver is power-management aware. 
        Any-one know how to deactivate the power down of the monitor so that 
the 
screen saver stays on? Increasing the time before screen saver kicks in 
doesn't appear to work.

Thanks in advance,

Peter C
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