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 enabling

Re: How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Thanks!!! will tell you the results (yes it is a browser only thing... boot into ff to a specific URL and dial out via a 3g USB wireless modem [the second part took over 2 weeks of fiddling to get all three brands of modems that will be used in production to work]) On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:21 PM,

Re: How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-10 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 04:04:42PM -0400, 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 > d

Re: How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-10 Thread Antonio Olivares
> 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 t

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

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 v

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: > > vid

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 co