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but if i touch my mouse, i see the monitor back on have this message

Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)
Kernel 2.4.18-3 on an i586
user login: eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xff80, IRQ 10,
00:20:18:2B:A4:E0

then if i push the "enter" button, i get this message back:

user login:

Now i can ping and use ssh to reach this machine again.

I really think there is a bug with this screen saver.

How can i disable this screen saver, so when i am in the command prompt it
won't turn on.
(i probably should call it screen saver because when it's on, my screen just
turn black, then after a while my monitor starts to make some noise, and
instantly my pc becomes unreachable).

Thank you

just a shot in the dark.  do you have apmd deamon running?
if you do, stop it and see what happens.

Quote:>  recently installed RH7.3.  Looks like it uses a screen saver, (called
> xscreensaver, maybe), so even when i am on the command prompt, if i don't
> use my mouse and keyboard for a while then my monitor will turn off (to
> sleep mode).  The problem is: each time when this happens, i can't remotely
> ping this machine, i can't use ssh program to access this machine.

> but if i touch my mouse, i see the monitor back on have this message

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> just a shot in the dark.  do you have apmd deamon running?
> if you do, stop it and see what happens.

Screen blanking alone, even if you set it to suspend your monitor with
setterm in the console or dpms in X, does not stop network an other
functions.  Something is making your box go totally asleep.

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