[mythtv-users] Blank screen after 2 hours.

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Jarett Creason <nobleiceman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > System info:
> > F8/Gnome/Myth 0.20.2
> > Nvidia 169 drivers w/ GeForce 6200 AGP.
> >
> > I've got the screen saver disabled, and the screen blanking set to
> > "never" in the power management applet. I'm also using Jarod's script
> > for starting Myth so I'm setting xset -dmps and xset s off. After
> > about two hours of doing anything without some sort of input from the
> > remote the screen will blank. Previously pressing Return, which maps
> > to 'Esc' in lirc would always wake it up but at some point it looks
> > like an update changed this now it's 1 in 10. Currently I have to open
> > the cabinet and press a keyboard or mouse button which is a pain.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas what would cause this? I've tried scanning
> > through the X log because I remember having an issue with the legacy
> > driver overriding the DMPS setting but can't find that anywhere in the
> > log of the current version other than it loading the module. Does
> > loading the module mean it will use DMPS even if it's explicitly
> > disabled using xset?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Richard
> > _______________________________________________
> >
>
> I had this problem on a couple computers... it took me a really long time to
> figure it out, but finally found this page:
>
> http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/x-screen-blanking.html
>
> Basically, it seems that sometimes the "xset" command doesn't work sometimes
> for some reason...  So there is another tool you can use called "vbetool"
> and using the command "vbetool dpms on" keeps the display on, at least for
> me.  Read through the page, hopefully this will help.
>
> Jarett

Well it looks like the wife was mistaken and the problem really wasn't
fixed. However, I upgraded to 0.21 last night and now it seems that
pressing the play button will wake the screen back up again. I'd still
like to see it fixed but at least now it's not so much of an issue.

Richard