Re: How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-11 Thread Al Plant
Aryeh Friedman wrote: I have a kiosk system I am almost done building and the last snag is attempting to make it so idle time (no keyboard or mouse attached) does not blank the screen. I have already tried the following: vidcontrol -S off disabling acpi and apmd from the kernel config

How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have a kiosk system I am almost done building and the last snag is attempting to make it so idle time (no keyboard or mouse attached) does not blank the screen. I have already tried the following: vidcontrol -S off disabling acpi and apmd from the kernel config enabling dpms via the kernel

RE: How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-10 Thread Gary Gatten
I have a kiosk system I am almost done building and the last snag is attempting to make it so idle time (no keyboard or mouse attached) does not blank the screen. I have already tried the following: vidcontrol -S off disabling acpi and apmd from the kernel config enabling dpms via the kernel

Re: How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-10 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, August 10, 2011 a las 03:18:07PM -0500, Gary Gatten escribió: I have a kiosk system I am almost done building and the last snag is attempting to make it so idle time (no keyboard or mouse attached) does not blank the screen. I have already tried the following:

RE: How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-10 Thread Gary Gatten
I have a kiosk system I am almost done building and the last snag is attempting to make it so idle time (no keyboard or mouse attached) does not blank the screen. I have already tried the following: vidcontrol -S off disabling acpi and apmd from the kernel config enabling dpms via the

Re: How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-10 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, August 10, 2011 a las 03:46:15PM -0500, Gary Gatten escribió: Hello Gary, Sorry for have mistyped your name. I see So I try to follow the rules and bottom post, and apparently I STILL don't do it right?? (SIGH) SERIOUSLY! I use Outlook. I write