[mythtv-users] How to get rid of power save

[Nathan Goff]

I went round and round on the powersave/screensaver thing some time 
ago.  Finally what did it for me was the screensaver setting inside the 
KDE control center.  I had to disable it there and then no more screen 
blanking.

Nathan

Tobias Luetke wrote:

> Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>
> Ok i tryed this approach with xset and it didn't work.
>
> I didn't enbale the powersaving in my XF86Config in first place, so 
> xset was just complaining. ( I tryed adding it to the XF86Config but 
> that didn't change a thing ).
>
> The power saving only happens in text mode, text framebuffer mode, X 
> and mythtv. Never if Xine or Mpayer are running.
>
> I think i stripped my kernel off everything related to it, but i must 
> have missed something.
>
>> I believe on mine it is:
>>
>> xset -dpms s off
>> xset s off
>>
>> The first disables power saving and the second the screensaver in X, 
>> IIRC.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
>>> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Tobias Luetke
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 10:20 AM
>>> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>>> Subject: [mythtv-users] How to get rid of power save
>>>
>>>
>>> How do i get rid of linux power save mode?
>>>
>>> Since i switched back to geforce TVout from pvr350's i have the 
>>> problem that the screen goes black after about 20 mins until i move 
>>> the mouse.
>>>
>>> I use xfce4 and even uninstalled xscreensaver.
>>>
>>> I removed support for APM and power management from the kernel.
>>>
>>> It looks like xine and mplayer prevent this from happening, but 
>>> while i'm watching something in myth.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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