Screen blanks after 60 seconds

Hervé Fache Herve at lucidia.net
Thu Aug 31 15:56:25 UTC 2006


Still, you could check the BIOS settings to find the _real_ cause of
the issue...

Hervé.

On 8/27/06, Tez <binary_y2k2 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Anita Lewis wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >> It's not a screen saver, it isn't set to start at all, and there is
> >> nothing in my xorg.conf file about BlankTime.
> >>
> >> But thanks for trying, I'm stuck on this one.
> >>
> >> Tez
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > http://linuxreviews.org/quicktips/screenblanking/
> >
> > maybe using xset to turn off blanking would work.  Something else is
> > causing the problem, but this might stop it.  The above link goes into
> > detail about using xset. I used to use it instead of a screensaver to
> > blank the screen, but either setting it to not blank at all or perhaps
> > turning off dpms will work.
> >
> > Another idea might be to comment the line in xorg.conf for DPMS.
> >
> > Just ideas I'd try if I had the problem, because I don't know much of
> > what could cause it.
> >
> > Anita
> >
> >
> Thanks, that command worked :D
> Now I don't have to tap a key every 60 seconds
>
> Tez
>
>
>
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