[mythtv-users] Ubuntu-mythtv-frontend turns off the screen

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Sun Oct 26 19:56:45 UTC 2008


On Oct 26, 2008, at 12:50 PM, Nick Morrott wrote:

> On 26/10/2008, Joacim J <jocke4news at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have started to use the package "ubuntu-mythtv-frontend" and it  
>> works very
>> smooth but have one small issue. When the frontend is idle (just  
>> showing the
>> menus) the screen are turned off. How can I adjust that?
>
> You probably want to disable DPMS for your display and your X
> screensaver using xset.

Oh, screensaver stuff. Since you're running ubuntu, you need to  
uninstall gnome-screensaver and install xscreensaver instead. That's  
the one MythTV works with.

-Brad



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