On Thursday 21 June 2007 21:47, alan wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Eric wrote: > > I have the screensaver disabled (using Configure Desktop->Screen Saver > > and unchecking "Start automatically"), and behold, the screen saver no > > longer comes up after the 5 minutes that was previously selected. > > > > However, the screen still goes blank after about 10 minutes or so. > > > > How do I go about disabling that? > > > > This happens with both FC5 and F7 (only ones I have available right now). > > Preferences->More Preferences->Power Management > > The power saving options are kicking in. I don't know if this is any help, but DPMS (display power management signalling) may be the problem. On FC5, commenting out the line "Options "DPMS" in the monitor section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf, resolved the problem, and now the monitor stays on all the time. Commenting out that line in FC6 did not work, and neither in Debian Lenny after some X updates. I use KDE, and have put a simple script in ~/.kde/autostart on Debian Lenny. This runs xset -dpms, which disables DPMS when you login, see below. #!/bin/bash xset -dpms The above script works ok on Debian Lenny if you're using KDE. Make sure to make the script executable (chmod +x), or just click the exec box in the file's properties/permissions. I havn't tried the script on FC6 yet, but it should work ok. Same perhaps for F7. If you're using Gnome I don't know, but perhaps there is some similar autostart directory in Gnome where you can run the script from. 2¢ worth of perhaps totally useless info, but works for me nevertheless. Nigel.
