Screensave

[Tim Makai]

Just a "perhaps stupid" suggestion.
Some laptops have a screen blanking designed in the bios for powersaving.  So if you haven't already
checked your bios for such a feature you may find your glitch there.
Tim Makai
"Gregory J. Neumann" wrote:

> Justin,
>
> Look for a setting called "screenblank" or something like that, too.  I'm at
> work and no running Linux boxes ... :-( so I can't check it myself.
> And I should have said a "bash shell", why I couldn't remember that, I don't
> know!
>
> -Greg
>
> > That may be exactly what it is.. It basically does a startx then runs .xintrc in the home to start
> > xmms.
> >
> > I put in the /etc/profile
> > setterm -powersave off
> > setterm -powerdown 0
> >
> > and rebooted. I'll see tonight if it worked.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Justin
> >
> >
> > Gregory J. Neumann wrote:
> >     Do you have a bourne-again login anywhere?  If you do, the default script
> >     blanks the screen after 15 minutes.  Type "man setterm" to find how to
> >     change the setting, then check for a .profile file in your /home dir or a profile
> >     file in /etc .  Sorry, I usually invoke X from the command prompt after I log in
> >     on my Slackware box, so I don't know exactly know what happens in
> >     RedHat.
> >
> >     HTH,
> >     Greg
> >
> >
> >     I have a PC being used as an mp3 player (old libretto) I have redhat 7.3
> >     on it, after about 10 minutes the screen will black out. I would like to
> >     keep the screen always on (got IRman and remote controll to controll
> >     it). I have no desktop running, just X and xmms. APMD is not running,
> >     got all power management turned off in the bios, any ideas whats
> >     blanking out the screen?
> >
> >     Justin
> >
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