[mythtv-users] Help me disable screen blanking in FC7

[Paul Harrison]

Jason McMillon wrote:
> Lately, my system has been blanking out after about 10 minutes of
> inactivity and can't be woken up via my remote control.  However, a
> connected keyboard works just fine.
>
> I have updated all my software in a hope to alleviate the problem.
> Before that the only thing that I recall changing is installing a dhcp
> server and tftp server (which uses xinetd) for use with my MediaMVP.
>
> Nvidia-settings doesn't seem to have anything to do with screen savers
> and I have turned off screen blanking/savers via KDesktop.  I have
> also rechecked my bios setting and didn't see any screen blanking
> settings...
>
> I running Fedora Core 7 and KDE using Jarod's guide.
>
> Thanks in advance!!
>
> Jason
>
>   

Adding this section to xorg.conf works for me :-

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option "BlankTime" "0"
        Option "StandbyTime" "0"
        Option "SuspendTime" "0"
        Option "OffTime" "0"
EndSection

Paul H.