[mythtv-users] Screen goes blank, argh tried everything

[Dan Robinson]

Just found my xorg.conf contains

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Sony"
        ModelName    "32in Analogue TV"
        HorizSync    30-50
        VertRefresh  60
        ModeLine "640x480x50" 21.0 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525
        ModeLine "800x600x50" 33.1584 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628
       Option      "dpms"
EndSection

Will the Option "dpms" cause me problems?  I noticed Jarod's S-Video
version contains this same line.

Danny


On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 17:07:31 +0000, Dan Robinson
<dannyjrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Good point, just checked and all power saving related features are
> disabled.  Except the following:
> 
> Video Off Method = DPMS Support
> 
> Description: This field defines "video off" features.  The DPMS
> support option permits the BIOS to control the video display if it
> supports the DPMS feature.  Blank Screen option blanks the screen; use
> blank screen option for monitors without power management of "green"
> features.  V/H SYNC+Blank blanks the screen and turns off vertical and
> horizontal scanning.
> 
> However, all 3 options seem to want to cause some kind of blanking and
> I can't remember changing this option recently, but since my FC2
> upgrade this behaviour seems to be occuring.
> 
> Does anyone else have an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Mobo or at least an
> AwardBIOS with this feature?
> 
> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:41:47 -0600, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> > Dan Robinson wrote:
> >
> > >Guys,
> > >
> > >Help please.  I've followed Jarod's settings to ensure the
> > >screen-saver doesn't kick-in, so rc.local contains the following
> > >lines.  I've also entered them in xterm to ensure they are definately
> > >loaded.
> > >
> > >/usr/X11R6/bin/xset -dpms
> > >/usr/X11R6/bin/xset s off
> > >
> > >I've also double checked my screen-saver settings to ensure it's not
> > >enabled, but I'm still getting a blank screen every 20-30 minutes
> > >which can be reactivated by pressing a remote key, but then I'm also
> > >seeing the screen totally blank such that the TV thinks the input
> > >signal is lost and pops up the channel id on screen.
> > >
> > >This latter behaviour requires me to press a keyboard key to
> > >reactivate the display and occurs usually 40-60 minute into viewing.
> > >Note, this seems to occur regardless of what I'm doing through Myth
> > >(DVD, TV, Music, ...).
> > >
> > >Any ideas anyone please, the WAF is getting killed on this one.
> > >
> > >
> > Do you have screen blanking enabled in your BIOS?
> >
> > Kevin
> >
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