Laptop problems. was: What kind of laptop?
Simon Haddon
simon at sibern.com.au
Thu Dec 12 17:39:49 EST 2002
Hi Everyone.
I took Damien's advice and mucked around with xset. Still can stop the
screen from blanking out. I have used the following to stop DPMS.
$ xset s noblank dpms 0 0 0
$ xset -dpms
You have to do it with 2 commands as changing the dpms settings
re-enables dpms again. Still found that it didn't help.
I then found that xscreensaver was re-enabling the dpms settings as it
records the settings in its .xscreensaver configuration. Setting the
values to 0 0 0 and no dpms using xscreensaver-demo stopped it stuffing
up my dpms settings.
Still didn't work. It now blanks out after 30 minutes but I don't have
dpms enabled even if I disable the screen saver. It also blanks out in
console at run level 1. Go figure.
Can anyone help. It is driving me mad. The main problem is that if I
want to watch a movie with xine then I can't without the screen blanking.
Note the xine provides simulates key presses to prevent the screen saver
triggering and that bit works but the screen still goes blank after 30
minutes. I have also tried stopping the apm deamon in case that had some
effect.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Simon.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 6/12/02, 10:24:26 AM, Simon Haddon <simon at sibern.com.au> wrote regarding
Re: What kind of laptop?:
> Ah. All this time and I have never thought of xset. Thanks :-)
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> On 5/12/02, 5:27:47 PM, Damien Elmes <clug at repose.cx> wrote regarding Re:
> What kind of laptop?:
> > Simon Haddon <simon at sibern.com.au> writes:
> > > I have found that the DVD works well. It took a little bit of stuffing
> > > around to get the DVD + sound + dvd menu working but it plays really nice
> > > and smooth. It is as good as the Windows version. I haven't tried it
> > > using the S-video output yet. The only problem I have is that the screen
> > > want to keep blanking itself out even when I have killed xscreensaver and
> > > apmd.
> > Perhaps you want "xset s noblank" and the dpms arguments to xset.
> > Cheers,
> > --
> > Damien Elmes
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