[mythtv-users] Blank screen after 2 hours.

[Jon Boehm]

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?
> 
> Thanks,
> Richard
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I had a similar problem a couple of months ago.  I only showed up while 
playing a dvd.  The would allow for a situation where I would not touch 
the remote for 2 hrs.

I solved the problem by
dpmsEnabled:    False
#dpmsEnabled:   True

in ~/.xscreensaver

good luck,
Jon