Laptop problems. was: What kind of laptop?
Damien Elmes
clug at repose.cx
Thu Dec 12 17:54:57 EST 2002
Simon Haddon <simon at sibern.com.au> writes:
> 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.
I think the console blanking is configured using 'setterm'. Do you have DPMS
or similiar enabled in your BIOS? Also the documentation for 'noblank':
"while 'noblank' sets the preference to
display a pattern rather than blank the video. "
- perhaps you want 's off' instead?
I'm not sure about xine, but mplayer actually automatically turns off DPMS and
screensaver settings when you play a movie, and turns them back on when the
movie's finished playing. It also seems to be more reliable than xine.
Cheers,
--
Damien Elmes
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