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I am one of thousands who have installed the nVidia drivers for my graphics card. It's no surprise that the nVidia drivers have problems with the screen saver/auto monitor shutoff.
I've searched high and low all over the web (and this forum!) to find out how the heck I can turn off the screen blanking. In other words, I want my monitor to remain on permanently so it won't freeze up.
So far I've done the following:
I've unchecked the screen saver under the desktop properties along with the "blank after x minutes" box. This didn't stop the screen from turning off.
I've disabled the advanced power management under my system's BIOS. This didn't stop the screen from turning off.
I've disabled the APM under KDE's processes setup. This didn't stop the screen from turning off.
What else can cause the screen to turn off after a few minutes and how can I disable it?
comment out the dpms option in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file under the Monitor section. That may disable X's ability to interface with the power management.
I've had limited success (with Mandrake) to go KDE Control Center, Power Management (way at the bottom somewhere) and turn everything under there to "DISABLED". That works only for KDE, though. I would like to know how to disable screen blanking under Konsole. Any Ideas?
comment out the dpms option in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file under the Monitor section. That may disable X's ability to interface with the power management.
Hi,
Tried that..but the monitor just went blank screen after 10 minutes.Any workaround on this?
I tried rockdw's idea with changing the XF86config line. This didn't stop the screen from turning off either.
Who knows how many things could be causing it...
KDE is in a way like 'windows' it has screen savers built in to it as does other os systems
what is going on is this by default it is set to blank out in 5mins time ...
to check this just do like you would in windows 'right click' over desktop
you will see 'configure desktop' select it a panel will come up much like windows on the left is icon 'screensaver' click it then 'uncheck' 'enable screensaver and the desktop should stay on all the time from then on
There's also a Monitor Power Saving thing under Power Options (KDE Control Center). Either lenghen the time there to, say, 120 minutes (2 hours) or uncheck Enable Power Saving (above the sliders). That should fix it.
You know something? This is an old thread that I didn't have any luck with. From the konsole, you can also execute this:
setterm -blank 0
That will take care of the konsole. I found that out in another thread.
To make it permanent, go in as root and put that command at the end of your /etc/profile as I showed it here.
Last edited by lectraplayer; 01-27-2004 at 03:08 PM.
I asked the same thing (similar), but they answered it in another thread. I then forgot about this one until I did a search and dug it up. Think nobody knew what r0dr0ddy was wanting?
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