[gentoo-user] stopping screen going blank
My screen keeps going blank after about 5 miniutes. I have DPMS turned off and still my screen goes blank. I dont have a screen saver set. Does anybody know how to stop this? Geoff. REMEMBER:- Those that get what they want, are the ones who show up to get it -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] stopping screen going blank
Geoff wrote: My screen keeps going blank after about 5 miniutes. I have DPMS turned off and still my screen goes blank. I dont have a screen saver set. Does anybody know how to stop this? Geoff. REMEMBER:- Those that get what they want, are the ones who show up to get it Check if your monitor has some built-in option to switch off after a certain period. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] stopping screen going blank
Check your BIOS. Sometimes there's a timeout in there, especially for notebooks... You had me at EHLO --E.Webb (10.04.05) -Original Message- From: Geoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:47 PM To: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] stopping screen going blank My screen keeps going blank after about 5 miniutes. I have DPMS turned off and still my screen goes blank. I dont have a screen saver set. Does anybody know how to stop this? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] stopping screen going blank
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 10:47 +1000, Geoff wrote: My screen keeps going blank after about 5 miniutes. I have DPMS turned off and still my screen goes blank. I dont have a screen saver set. Does anybody know how to stop this? X seems to do it regardless of what you have dpms set to. Try turning DPMS on in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and setting: Option BlankTime Option StandbyTime Option SuspendTime Option OffTime to 0 (if 0 means disable - man xorg.conf). HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. -- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] stopping screen going blank
I have checked my bios and monitor and cant find anything there? Does anybody have any other ideas?? I am using a desktop AMD64 with Gentoo 2.6.16r1 and Dell 2405FPW screen Cheers Geoff On 22:34 Thu 27 Apr , JimD wrote: Geoff wrote: My screen keeps going blank after about 5 miniutes. I have DPMS turned off and still my screen goes blank. I dont have a screen saver set. Does anybody know how to stop this? Geoff. REMEMBER:- Those that get what they want, are the ones who show up to get it Check if your monitor has some built-in option to switch off after a certain period. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Chow, Geoff. REMEMBER:- Those that get what they want, are the ones who show up to get it -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] stopping screen going blank
Burn a knoppix CD and see if it keeps happening under Knoppix. That is, if Knoppix isn't configured, out the box, to turn off your screen like that. If it does, it's a Linux configuration issue, if it doesn't, then it's hardware. Do you have Windows installed on that machine? Same deal. Justin On 4/28/06, Geoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have checked my bios and monitor and cant find anything there? Does anybody have any other ideas?? I am using a desktop AMD64 with Gentoo 2.6.16r1 and Dell 2405FPW screen Cheers Geoff On 22:34 Thu 27 Apr , JimD wrote: Geoff wrote: My screen keeps going blank after about 5 miniutes. I have DPMS turned off and still my screen goes blank. I dont have a screen saver set. Does anybody know how to stop this? Geoff. REMEMBER:- Those that get what they want, are the ones who show up to get it Check if your monitor has some built-in option to switch off after a certain period. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Chow, Geoff. REMEMBER:- Those that get what they want, are the ones who show up to get it -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Justin W. Hart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
