Re: [ossig] How do I prevent a screen from going blank ?

[Kenneth Wong <ken@xxxxxxxxx>]

What's the output of "xset q"?

You're 100% sure there's no screensaver? Besides the built-in 
screensavers of KDE and Gnome (and probably other desktops as well), 
there's xscreensaver to worry about. 

It's been a long time since I last played with DPMS (last time was with 
my first install of RH9) but I don't think that's how DPMS is set. 
Vague, hazy and unreliable memory suggests that it was set in either 
the screens or monitor section, with either 

Option "DPMS" "no"

or 

Open "DPMS" 1200 1800 2400 # numbers are seconds before standby, 
suspend, off. 0 to disable. man xset for more details

I'll have to find my RH9 XF86Config file for that. 

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Kenneth Wong
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On Friday 25 June 2004 18:43, Uwe Dippel wrote:
> Kenneth Wong wrote:
> > If you've already disabled the screensavers, then the next place to
> > look would be the DPMS settings of X. You can either turn it off in
> > the XF86Config or by issuing "xset -dpms".
>
> Njet.
> No screensaver about.
> There is no DPMS in XF86Config; finally I added a
> Option       "NODPMS"
> but doesn't help.
> The BIOS has the Power Management disabled; in case you were going to
> ask. If I
> xset -dpms
> on the terminal; it wouldn't.
> If I do so in an xterm at running X, it will swallow the command
>   - and blank after some 10 minutes!
>
> There *is* a difference, though, the monitor will not switch down to
> blinking yellow, but remain with the green power light.
> But a black screen.
>
> Ooops, didn't think it was so difficult ... !


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