Screensave

Justin Bennett justin.bennett at dynabrade.com
Wed Aug 14 07:41:49 EDT 2002


Yeah, been their tried that... Thats turned off, one thing that makes be 
believe its software also is that when it's hardware powered down the screen 
goes off, in this case it goes black, it's still backlit, when you turn the 
lights off you can see it glowing.

Justin

On Wednesday 14 August 2002 12:19 am, Tim Makai wrote:
> 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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