[mythtv-users] OT: Powersafe(?) switching off screen after 10min

[James Colannino]

Timo Boettcher wrote:

>Hi,
>
>  My Myth-box switches its display dark after 10minutes off watching
>  TV (doesn't really matter what I do, I could be jumping on my remote
>  as long as I don't touch my Keyboard). I just don't know what part
>  of the system is responsible for that: The BIOS, the Linux-Kernel,
>  X, Myth, ...?
>  Please Help, it's really annoying to push a key every 10 minutes...
>

Are you using KDE?  If so, check to make sure screen blanking is 
disabled.  If it still is doing it, since I've never had the kernel 
blank the screen when I was in X, check the BIOS.

James