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I'm doing some project work for school and help would be very very much apperciated.
I'm got a box running Fedora 5 with gnome as the desktop manager. I written some java code which will start vlc and play videos from other machines.
This box just plays videos (no keyboard or mouse present) so after a while the screen will go to screen saver. Its pretty important I get this to stop. What i've done is diabled apic in setup -> services. and disable screensaver in system -> preferences.
The screensaver stops but the monitor just goes blank, until I put in a mouse and move it around.
Is this a power management issue or a screen saver issue? Can anybody please help because I gotta get this done before my deadline!?!
I had Option "DPMS" "True" inside my xorg.conf file and changed to false. It still didn't help though. After about 10 mins the minitor will blank until I move the mouse.
I've played around with a view BIOS settings so I think its a linux screensaver problem. Do you have anymore ideas?
I had Option "DPMS" "True" inside my xorg.conf file and changed to false. It still didn't help though. After about 10 mins the minitor will blank until I move the mouse.
You did restart X Window to make it take effect? Just to be sure..
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I've played around with a view BIOS settings so I think its a linux screensaver problem. Do you have anymore ideas?
Well, if gnome or kde has the screensaver disabled then no, the screensaver will not turn on. So its not a "linux screensaver" problem if its disabled in your Window Manager.
Could be a BIOS thing but then you have to look in your bios settings.
Keyboard Control:
auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000002
auto repeat delay: 500 repeat rate: 30
auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf
fadfffdfffdfe5ef
ffffffffffffffff
ffffffffffffffff
bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100
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