when i do backups i boot from a live fedora 16 or 17 cd

i boot to level 1 and use dd and sometimes fdisk

to my frustration while dd is running the screen goes blank - maybe after 5 min

if i were in the graphical mode i know how to tell the system not to do this

i suppose i could boot to the graphical mode (takes a lot of time on a cd) and set the parameter and then use terminal - but more convenient if there is a way to reset this timeout parameter from the command line

any suggestions?

man xset

lambo -
fantastic - thanks much
Dick

I tried xset s off
and it responded
xset: unable to open display

maybe that means that the command line you get when you boot to level 1 is not an X window?

alternatively maybe it means something particular about with my terminal?

I would be surprised if level 1 involved X windows - and from its name I would assume xset is an X windows command- since level 1 is supposed to be a minimal environment - like the old unix environment of 10-20 years ago

I would imagine that in level 1 the shell would be issuing writes to a driver that merely writes to the screen

Any know how would be appreciated

Dick

setterm -powersave off -blank 0

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The blanking it due to the monitor's dpms feature, not the screen saver, so you have to use the xset options that control that.

frieza - super - thanks much - Dick

i played with it -
does it , the rest is defaulted