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

Christian Hack christianh at edmi.com.au
Mon Jun 28 02:09:32 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
> 

Take a look here:

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-20.html#ss20.4

4th section




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