[mythtv-users] Nvida card choice for mythtv and gaming

[James Abernathy]

> On May 12, 2020, at 5:38 PM, Jim Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5/12/20 4:45 PM, Erik Merkle wrote:
>> If you disable DPMS in your Desktop environment, and disable xscreensaver and find that DPMS and/or screensaver is still kicking in, you can try running "xset q" to query things. For example, my system sometimes shows this:
>> 
>> Screen Saver:
>>   prefer blanking:  no    allow exposures:  no
>>   timeout:  1800    cycle:  900
>> DPMS (Energy Star):
>>   Standby: 2700    Suspend: 0    Off: 3600
>>   DPMS is Enabled
>>   Monitor is On
>> 
>> To turn things off, I can run "xset s off -dpms":
>> 
>> Screen Saver:
>>   prefer blanking:  no    allow exposures:  no
>>   timeout:  0    cycle:  900
>> DPMS (Energy Star):
>>   Standby: 2700    Suspend: 0    Off: 3600
>>   DPMS is Disabled
>> 
>> The "s off" option turns off the screensaver (timeout: 1800 to timeout: 0) and the "-dpms" option disables DPMS. On some of my systems, I put that command in my user's $HOME/.xprofile and it essentially disables them at login. I have done this with Xfce as well as LXDE.
>> 
>> Hope that helps (YMMV),
>> Erik
> Great tips.  The xset q showed that screensaver was off; 'standby' and 'off' where 0 (never), but DPMS was enabled. So I set it off with the settings app. So xset q now shows DPMS disabled.
> It seems to be working at this point, but I need to switch from the PC to another device for an hour or so and see if it comes back correctly. I've left the PC at the Mythtv top menu.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim A
> 

This morning I powered up the TV and AVR. It was not on the PC input. But when I switched it to the PC input it was blank until I clicked the mouse. At that point it was back at the Mythtv Frontend main menu.  

So for me this is as good as fixed.  No login required, no script to execute, just a mouse click.

Jim A

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