Screen keeps turning off after 10 minutes

Josh000 · 04-27-2010, 04:09 AM

HI, I have actually done a bit of searching on this, but the suggested solutions either don't work or are not applicable to my setup.

First, I changed the setterm link in /etc/rc.d/rc.M to be setterm -blank 0 -powersave off -powerdown 0

and have xset s off in my fluxbox startup file.

Nevertheless, the screen goes blank after 10 minutes. I can't figure out what is causing it and how to stop it.

stuart_cherrington · 04-27-2010, 04:13 AM

Question: Is it the screen which goes blank or does the 'physical' terminal actually power down?

dive · 04-27-2010, 04:41 AM

The setterm line is only for consoles. You could try commenting out completely though. As for xset try 'xset -dpms'. Run xset alone to see options.

Oh yeah and make sure xscreensaver daemon isn't running.

H_TeXMeX_H · 04-27-2010, 06:02 AM

Add this to the monitor section of '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'

Code:

Option "DPMS" "0"

or instead of "0" use "false".

Josh000 · 04-27-2010, 06:22 AM

It isnt dpms related. My screen does not actually turn off, it turns blank.

H_TeXMeX_H · 04-27-2010, 06:49 AM

Actually, DPMS first blanks the screen, then turns it off.

If it happens when X is running, turn off DPMS in xorg.conf (restart X of course).

If it happens on the console, see 'rc.M' and do what you did above.

There are no other ways to control the screen blanking, the solution is one of the above.

propofol · 04-28-2010, 01:31 AM

Not sure if this will help, but I had a similar problem with my debian lenny system. This code which I found on the internet seems to fixed the problem:

~/.xinitrc

Code:

xset -dpms     // This *should* turn off the dpms power management stuff
xset s noblank // This should turn off screen blanking
xset s off     // This turns off the screen saver

xscreensaver &
exec startkde

Regards,
Stefan

Josh000 · 04-29-2010, 12:29 AM

OK, I have tried xset s off and xset -dpms and it still goes blank after 10 minutes.

If it is dpsm, why isn't xset -dpms working?

H_TeXMeX_H · 04-29-2010, 07:31 AM

Just tell me if it doesn't work if doesn't work if you add that option to xorg.conf like I said, have you tried it ?

Josh000 · 04-29-2010, 06:47 PM

No, it didn't work. I didn't have an xorg.conf file and created it, just with the line you gave.

I would prefer anyway to be able to disable it per user and not just system wide if that is possible

H_TeXMeX_H · 04-30-2010, 05:39 AM

Any screensaver set to run ?

Josh000 · 04-30-2010, 06:14 PM

No, no screensavers are even installed.

Josh000 · 05-02-2010, 02:38 PM

OK, the culprit was the screensaver, when i do xset s off and xset s noblank the problem disappears

I put these commands in my .fluxbox/startup file, however they don't seem to be loaded as xset q shows them still to be at default settings.

I run tint2 fine from the startup file, so why would the xset commands not load from there?

It seems to be the correct approach going by here