[mythtv-users] Myth 0.27 / Mythbuntu 12.04 - Screen blanking every 10 minutes (or so) during video playback

Kingsley Turner krt at krt.com.au
Sun Oct 12 23:23:06 UTC 2014


G'day Mythers,

On my reasonably new install, the screen is blanking every 10 minutes (maybe 
15, 20, whatever) during video playback.

It's not xscreensaver kicking in, since it's a blank screen and not the 
graphic-screensaver.

So far I have:

Removed gnome-screensaver (it wasn't installed)
   # apt-get remove gnome-screensaver

Disabled gnome-screensaver activation
    # gconftool-2 --type boolean -s 
/apps/gnome-screensaver/idle_activation_enabled false

Turned off gnome power manager idle display sleep (don't know if it's installed)
    # gconftool-2 --type boolean -s 
/apps/gnome-power-manager/timeout/sleep_display_ac 0

Turned off X-windows DPMS, etc. in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
    Section "ServerFlags"
       Option "BlankTime"         "0"
       Option "StandbyTime"     "0"
       Option "SuspendTime"    "0"
       Option "OffTime"             "0"
    EndSection

    Section "Device"
       ...
       Option "DPMS"         "False"
    EndSection

Added a script which is called on XFCE-startup to turn all this stuff off too:
    #! /bin/sh
    xset s noblank
    xset s off
    xset -dpms


But, alas, the problem persists.

Anything for next on the list ?


cheers guys,
-kt




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