[mythtv-users] Blank screen after 2 hours.

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
>
> Richard Shaw wrote:
>  > System info:
>  > F8/Gnome/Myth 0.20.2
>  > Nvidia 169 drivers w/ GeForce 6200 AGP.
>  >
>  > I've got the screen saver disabled, and the screen blanking set to
>  > "never" in the power management applet. I'm also using Jarod's script
>  > for starting Myth so I'm setting xset -dmps and xset s off. After
>  > about two hours of doing anything without some sort of input from the
>  > remote the screen will blank. Previously pressing Return, which maps
>  > to 'Esc' in lirc would always wake it up but at some point it looks
>  > like an update changed this now it's 1 in 10. Currently I have to open
>  > the cabinet and press a keyboard or mouse button which is a pain.
>  >
>  > Anyone have any ideas what would cause this? I've tried scanning
>  > through the X log because I remember having an issue with the legacy
>  > driver overriding the DMPS setting but can't find that anywhere in the
>  > log of the current version other than it loading the module. Does
>  > loading the module mean it will use DMPS even if it's explicitly
>  > disabled using xset?
>  >
>
>  What's it hooked up to?  My TV will shut off after 3 hours of no
>  activity from the remote.

A Samsung 27" CRT via DVI. I've never had a problem with anything
other than Myth though...

Richard