[mythtv-users] MythTV - Xbox - Xebian - black screen - bad

[flim]

Hi,

I know nothing about your Xbox install (or running Linux on Xbox at all,  
for that matter) neither do I pretend to know everything about Linux.   
That said, I had trouble with my screen saver and power saving settings  
not doing what I wanted.  In KDE, I would change them by right-clicking  
the desktop and choosing 'Configure Desktop...' but this wouldn't always  
work.  I eventually saw that powersaved was running and was being fronted  
by kpowersave.  Check for this on your system.  If it's running, try  
killing it and see what happens.  If that sorts it, you could try playing  
with running it with different profiles.  Maybe it would be nice for it to  
spin the HDD down after a while, or run the fan a little slower for noise  
reduction, etc.

flim.

On Sun, 29 May 2005 01:59:49 +0100, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Greg & John,
>    So far the screen still goes black. Either it's not only DPMS or
> I'm editing the wrong file.
>
>    I am not at all familiar with Debian configuration. I searched
> around for XF86config files and found what looks about right in
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 which was a link pointing at XF86Config-4-xbox.
> There was only a single screen definition so I commented out the DPMS
> entry in that section and rebooted the machine. After about a half
> hour I'm told that it went black again.
>
>    First, is this the righ file to edit for a Xebian/XBox install or
> is there possibly some oter file I should be looking at?
>
>    Is there anyway to query X as to the state of DPMS while the system
> is running to ensure it really got turned off?
>
>    Last, is there possibly some sort of black screensaver running
> under Xebian that could be causing this? I do not see xscreensaver but
> I do see something called /usr/X11R6/bin/xtdesk. None of my other
> systems run that (in fact this Gentoo system doesn't even have it
> installed) so I'm not clear what it does. man xtdesk does nothing.
>
> thanks for your help,
> Mark
>
> On 5/28/05, Greg Mitchell <greg at nodecam.com> wrote:
>> >    Question - we don't need any screensaver function on this Myth
>> > frontend. We will just turn the TV off. What feature of either MythTV
>> > or X is causing the screen to go black and how do I turn this off so
>> > that the screen is always on when people turn on the TV?
>>
>> It's DPMS - you can disable it by commenting out the DPMS line in
>> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
>>
>> Greg
>>
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