<div>try this..</div>
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<div>su - live</div>
<div>export DISPLAY=:0</div>
<div>xset -dpms</div>
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<div>-Scott<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/28/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Knecht</b> <<a href="mailto:markknecht@gmail.com">markknecht@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">John,<br> I hesitated on this idea earlier as the DPMS line in the onfig file<br>seemed more permanant. Anyway, I'm shelled into the machine. It
<br>doesn't like the display value apparently.<br><br>xbox:~# xset -dpms<br>xset: unable to open display ""<br>xbox:~#<br><br>xbox:~# env<br>TERM=xterm<br>SHELL=/bin/bash<br>SSH_CLIENT=<a href="http://192.168.1.2">
192.168.1.2</a> 39183 22<br>SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/0<br>USER=root<br>MAIL=/var/mail/root<br>PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11<br>PWD=/root<br>PS1=\h:\w\$<br>SHLVL=1<br>HOME=/root<br>
LS_OPTIONS=--color=auto<br>LOGNAME=root<br>SSH_CONNECTION=<a href="http://192.168.1.2">192.168.1.2</a> 39183 <a href="http://192.168.1.10">192.168.1.10</a> 22<br>_=/usr/bin/env<br>xbox:~#<br><br>xbox:~# set | grep DISPLAY
<br>xbox:~#<br><br>Is this caused by me using ssh or is this some sort of settings issue<br>with the machine?<br><br>Please remember that there is no keyboard attached to an XBox. I have<br>to execute everything remotely or place it in a file onboard the
<br>machine.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Mark<br><br><br>On 5/28/05, John P. Mitchell <<a href="mailto:john@cepros.com">john@cepros.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Mark,<br>><br>> Without restarting X run the following command from a terminal:
<br>><br>> xset -dpms<br>><br>> and then check to see if it goes black again. If not, then you need to<br>> place the command some place in the init scripts for X. I think you could<br>> place this command in a file named .xinitrc in the home directory of the
<br>> user that logs in to X.<br>><br>> > Greg & John,<br>> > So far the screen still goes black. Either it's not only DPMS or<br>> > I'm editing the wrong file.<br>> ><br>> > I am not at all familiar with Debian configuration. I searched
<br>> > around for XF86config files and found what looks about right in<br>> > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 which was a link pointing at XF86Config-4-xbox.<br>> > There was only a single screen definition so I commented out the DPMS
<br>> > entry in that section and rebooted the machine. After about a half<br>> > hour I'm told that it went black again.<br>> ><br>> > First, is this the righ file to edit for a Xebian/XBox install or
<br>> > is there possibly some oter file I should be looking at?<br>> ><br>> > Is there anyway to query X as to the state of DPMS while the system<br>> > is running to ensure it really got turned off?
<br>> ><br>> > Last, is there possibly some sort of black screensaver running<br>> > under Xebian that could be causing this? I do not see xscreensaver but<br>> > I do see something called /usr/X11R6/bin/xtdesk. None of my other
<br>> > systems run that (in fact this Gentoo system doesn't even have it<br>> > installed) so I'm not clear what it does. man xtdesk does nothing.<br>> ><br>> > thanks for your help,<br>> > Mark
<br>> ><br>> > On 5/28/05, Greg Mitchell <<a href="mailto:greg@nodecam.com">greg@nodecam.com</a>> wrote:<br>> >> > Question - we don't need any screensaver function on this Myth<br>> >> > frontend. We will just turn the TV off. What feature of either MythTV
<br>> >> > or X is causing the screen to go black and how do I turn this off so<br>> >> > that the screen is always on when people turn on the TV?<br>> >><br>> >> It's DPMS - you can disable it by commenting out the DPMS line in
<br>> >> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4<br>> >><br>> >> Greg<br>> >><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > mythtv-users mailing list<br>> > <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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