Re: Screen's going black

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 07:09:15PM -0500, Nate Reindl wrote:
> Quoting Jason Smith <jvsmith@midamer.net>:
> > screensaver in the control-center.  But if you don't touch the computer
> > in about 15 minutes or so the screen goes black, kind of like a power
> > saver feature.  I thought I had heard of how to get this behavior to
> 
> That's probably what it is, either that or the console blanking is taking over
> (unlikely).

I would imagine that *is* it though.

> > stop but I can't remember where I found it.  So what I'm wanting to know
> > is how to stop the screen from going blank after the so many minutes of
> > nonuse.
> 
> A temporary fix would be to enter this in a gnome-terminal/xterm/etc.:
> 
> $ xset -dpms

If that's the problem, then "xset q" would say that DPMS is enabled.
Look for something like this in the output:

    DPMS (Energy Star):
      Standby: 600    Suspend: 900    Off: 1200
      DPMS is Disabled

If it does say that DPMS is disabled, then you'll want to shut off the
kernel console blanking with "setterm -blank 0".

Steve
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