Ok so, RedHat 9 (obviously).
The screen (not the monitor) will 'sleep', it's not all that annoying, except I've been playing games with a joystick lately, and apparently, RH only cares about Mouse or Keyboard.

So, this happens from both the virtual terminal, and from fluxbox. Any ideas how to stop it?

In my system, the screen sleep mode is part of the power saving options in the screensaver:

start>preferences -> screensaver icon

you'll find options to turn the whole screensaver off in here as well as change the power options. Does this help?
Simon

No. That doesn't help.
TTYs (Virtual Console) don't have any buttons.
Fluxbox doesn't have a start button either.

I don't have KDE or GNOME installed, and I'm fairly sure that's what you're using.

No GUI at all?

You have a screensaver?

Otherwise, look in the CMOS setup under power management, there will (may?) be something in there which blanks the screen after x mins.

Have you tried...

(1) "apropos screensaver" and see what you get ... then do "man <likely utility>" for more information. If you have a screensaver installed you'll also have a command line utility to control it. On my machine, the screen blanking can be controlled from here.

(2) Also try "apropos power" and likewise.

In my machine, bios advanced power management is handled with utilities like apm and apmd... for eg: "apm -i" tells the system to egnore APM suspend and standby events when on AC power.

Other than that - dunno.
Simon

I didn't say I didn't have a GUI. Unless Fluxbox doesn't count as a GUI (a WM maybe? I'm never sure).

But no, I don't have KDE or GNOME, and if there's any settings in just XFree, I don't know about them.

If this doesn't work, I suppose I could go check the XFree conf.

I totally forgot to check the BIOS.
I'll start with that, thanks.

re: fluxbox . . . exactly! So you don't HAVE to use the vertual console right? So some where you have a utility, normally stuck in the environment settings somewhere, which controlls the screen. It is often associated with the screensaver. Sheesh!

In my machine (Gnome - yes) there is a launcher on the desktop called "start here" and a menue uption on the panel at the bottom of the screen (or wherever I want it today) called "Preferences". However - linux and gnome are so configurable that these things could be anywhere on anybodies system. ANY advice can only be general finger-pointing.

Anyway - the bios settings are most likely cause, and the screen controls normally read and adjust those.
Simon

My BIOS doesn't have an option for sleeping the monitor. I suppose I could get the rpms for gnome or kde and give it a quick whirl.

Don't need GNOME or KDE to run xscreensaver, whee.
Well, I disabled the screen saver, and it still happens. And I've shut off all BIOS power management... grr.

I guess the next thing to try is to check apmd settings?