[mythtv-users] TV Screen blanking out due to inactivity

Calvin Harrigan charriglists at bellsouth.net
Mon Mar 21 21:42:58 UTC 2005


Aaron Aguilar wrote:

>Yeah I have the same problem as well.  I'm using IceWM and haven't
>found a solution.
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>Aaron
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>On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:28:58 -0600, Robert Kulagowski <bob at smalltime.com> wrote:
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>>>I have my TV screen blanking out due to 10 min of inactivity. I tried
>>># Options dpms,
>>>I also did xset -dpms, xset -s off, but nothing seems to work. I dont
>>>have a screen-saver (I think).
>>>      
>>>
>>Are you using a fancy environment like KDE?  Make sure that it's not
>>blanking the screen.
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I had the same problem, turned out that the bios was setup to turn off 
the screen at a predetermined time.  Had to disable all screen related 
power saving options.

Calvin...


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