On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Some time back I had posted this problem on the list. If I don't touch the computer
>for some
> period of time ( specially watching VCD's ), the monitor goes in stand by mode.
>
> As suggested by mrinal I even tried putting xset -dpms in .xinitrc but still the
>same problem
> persists. I have even disabled power saving mode in bios.
>
> What else should I do ?
>
Do you have a 'setterm -blank' line in any of your rc scripts ? This can
cause the monitor to go blank after a predefined duration.
Sreeji
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