Mark, Without restarting X run the following command from a terminal:
xset -dpms and then check to see if it goes black again. If not, then you need to place the command some place in the init scripts for X. I think you could place this command in a file named .xinitrc in the home directory of the user that logs in to X. > Greg & John, > So far the screen still goes black. Either it's not only DPMS or > I'm editing the wrong file. > > I am not at all familiar with Debian configuration. I searched > around for XF86config files and found what looks about right in > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 which was a link pointing at XF86Config-4-xbox. > There was only a single screen definition so I commented out the DPMS > entry in that section and rebooted the machine. After about a half > hour I'm told that it went black again. > > First, is this the righ file to edit for a Xebian/XBox install or > is there possibly some oter file I should be looking at? > > Is there anyway to query X as to the state of DPMS while the system > is running to ensure it really got turned off? > > Last, is there possibly some sort of black screensaver running > under Xebian that could be causing this? I do not see xscreensaver but > I do see something called /usr/X11R6/bin/xtdesk. None of my other > systems run that (in fact this Gentoo system doesn't even have it > installed) so I'm not clear what it does. man xtdesk does nothing. > > thanks for your help, > Mark > > On 5/28/05, Greg Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Question - we don't need any screensaver function on this Myth >> > frontend. We will just turn the TV off. What feature of either MythTV >> > or X is causing the screen to go black and how do I turn this off so >> > that the screen is always on when people turn on the TV? >> >> It's DPMS - you can disable it by commenting out the DPMS line in >> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 >> >> Greg >> > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
