[mythtv-users] Myth 0.27 / Mythbuntu 12.04 - Screen blanking every 10 minutes (or so) during video playback

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 01:54:14 UTC 2014


Hoi Kingsley,

Monday, October 13, 2014, 1:23:06 AM, you wrote:

> G'day Mythers,

> On my reasonably new install, the screen is blanking every 10 minutes (maybe
> 15, 20, whatever) during video playback.

> It's not xscreensaver kicking in, since it's a blank screen and not the
> graphic-screensaver.

> So far I have:

> Removed gnome-screensaver (it wasn't installed)
>    # apt-get remove gnome-screensaver

> Disabled gnome-screensaver activation
>     # gconftool-2 --type boolean -s 
> /apps/gnome-screensaver/idle_activation_enabled false

> Turned off gnome power manager idle display sleep (don't know if it's installed)
>     # gconftool-2 --type boolean -s 
> /apps/gnome-power-manager/timeout/sleep_display_ac 0

> Turned off X-windows DPMS, etc. in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>     Section "ServerFlags"
>        Option "BlankTime"         "0"
>        Option "StandbyTime"     "0"
>        Option "SuspendTime"    "0"
>        Option "OffTime"             "0"
>     EndSection

>     Section "Device"
>        ...
>        Option "DPMS"         "False"
>     EndSection

> Added a script which is called on XFCE-startup to turn all this stuff off too:
>     #! /bin/sh
>     xset s noblank
>     xset s off
>     xset -dpms


> But, alas, the problem persists.

> Anything for next on the list ?


> cheers guys,
> -kt


Does you tv itself have a blanking function?



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