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> but still I get screen blanking after ~30 minutes idle. Any ideas?

Is it your BIOS?

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Kevin Bowen wrote
> I've tried just about everything and I cannot for the life of me
> figure out how to turn off dpms screen blanking. I'm running myth
> under fvwm on redhat 9. I tried every method mentioned in the myth
> docs... I have dpms commented out of my XF86Config, and I have
> 'xset -dpms' in my fvwm startup script, but still I get screen
> blanking after ~30 minutes idle. Any ideas?

Hi...

Lots of people keep missing this. There are 2 parts to it:
- DPMS (Energy Star, turns monitor power off)
- Screen Saver (usually just blanks the screen)

so, you have to give the parameters to control both:

xset -dpms s off

xset +dpms s on

if you want to see the values in there, use 'xset q' and
you'll see what all the values are, including if DPMS and
the screensaver are on or off.

-Chris

Try:

xset -dpms s off

Works in blackbox.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Bowen" <kevin@ucsd.edu>
To: <mythtv-users@snowman.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 7:08 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] fvwm and dpms


> I've tried just about everything and I cannot for the life of me figure
out how to turn off dpms screen blanking. I'm running myth under fvwm on
redhat 9. I tried every method mentioned in the myth docs... I have dpms
commented out of my XF86Config, and I have 'xset -dpms' in my fvwm startup
script, but still I get screen blanking after ~30 minutes idle. Any ideas?
>
> Kevin Bowen
>
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