On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 12:42:11AM +0200, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> Any APM wizards out there?
> 
> I have a problem: When I use the USB keyboard and mouse the BIOS
> no longer registers any activity, so after a while BIOS reduces turns off
> the screen.
> Well, I'd like BIOS to know that something is still happening while I use
> USB.  Is there an APM call that I can use to tell the APM BIOS that the
> machine is still being used?

If you can (but this is probably not a general solution), turn off
the screen power management in the BIOS configuration and enable
it (DPMS) in your XF86Config instead. I assume the X server respects
USB input in this regard; if not, it's probably not hard to fix there.


-- 
Soren