I recently rebooted my machine, and usually when I am under an x-windows session, I have it set not to use any kind of power save feature for my monitor. I do not have the DPMS option in xorg.conf, and I made sure that rc.acpid would not load (chmod -x) and commented out the setterm option in rc.M. So after about 15 minutes, my screen goes blank still, so I also made sure that xset s off was in my .xinitrc, so now thats taken care of, and still my screen goes blank.
I then decide to try this command while in my x-windows session:
After a while, still it goes blank, so I decide to exit to a CLI, and do the following as root:
Code:
root@slackuser:/home/slackuser# setterm -blank 0 -powesave off -append
Ok, so the command works, so I go back into x-windows, and yet it goes blank again, so I try the same command as root (su), in xterm, but then I get a different result:
Code:
root@slacker:/home/slackuser# setterm -blank 0 -powersave off -append
cannot (un)set powersave mode
root@slacker:/home/slackuser#
Now what!? I made sure acpi/apm were not loading, why is it still going blank, and what should I try next?