[mythtv-users] Screen goes blank after some time...

Craig Box craig at dubculture.co.nz
Sun Jun 27 22:14:31 EDT 2004


Hi Bryan,

>> Since I switched to the fvwm2 wm, the screen has been going to sleep
>> after about 20 minutes
>> or so.  If you use the remote to change the channel or something, the
>> screen comes back.  But if you do it for too long it seems to turn
>> off the feed to the tv entirely.  This seems like some kind of
>> xscreensaver crap but I made sure to kill that process.

It's possibly the X DPMS screen blanking; try putting 'xset -dpms s off' in
the script that starts mythfrontend.

Craig



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