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

David Hampton mythtv at love2code.net
Thu May 14 13:38:20 UTC 2020


On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 01:11 +1200, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Thu, 14 May 2020 08:47:31 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> > I did discover that some of the required settings do not make
> > sense. If my
> > system is not running mythfrontend then I can leave the power
> > management in
> > Presentation mode which turns off DPMS. However, in Mythfrontend,
> > this will
> > not work and I can't get mythtv to come out of blank mode. I have
> > to do
> > Ctl-Alt-F1 and login to CLI and reboot.
> 
> You could probably use xrandr or xset from Ctrl-Alt-F1 to unblank it.
> Something like:
> 
> xrandr -d :0 --output DFP-0 --auto
> 
> or
> 
> xset -display :0 dpms on
> 
> > What I have found works in all cases is Screensaver installed and
> > disabled,
> > and DPMS enabled with all the timers set to Never.
> > 
> > Jim A
> 
> I am guessing this is why I have these in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier "Sony TV"
>         Option "DPMS"   "true"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "ServerFlags"
>         Option "BlankTime"              "0"
>         Option "StandbyTime"    "0"
>         Option "SuspendTime"    "0"
>         Option "OffTime"                "0"
> EndSection
> 
> I have had them there for many years, but recently I was scratching
> my
> head wondering why.  I can see why I had the times set to 0, but just
> why I still had DPMS enabled was bothering me.

Interesting.  I just checked one of my frontends and I have this
instead:

Section "Extensions"
    Option  "DPMS"     "false"
EndSection

I have no recollection why this is in the extensions section instead of
a monitor section but it works.

David




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