How to disable screen blanking?

[Adam Behnke]

>I'm using the open source ATI driver, the proprietary driver for my
>card doesn't work with current X.

i'm sorry, are you using Catalyst binary driver or the generic VESA driver

also, may help:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

sorry if you already read those.

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:02:38 -0500
> Adam Behnke <abehnke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> what kind for graphics card is it? maybe the nvidia/amd restricted
>> driver is preventing it.
>
> I'm using the open source ATI driver, the proprietary driver for my
> card doesn't work with current X.
>
> spinymouse at qrc:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier     "X.org Configured"
>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier   "Monitor0"
>         DisplaySize  305 230
>         HorizSync    29-98
>         VertRefresh  50-120
>         modeline     "1152x864" 128.42 1152 1232 1360 1568 864 865 868
> 910 Gamma            1.0
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Card0"
>         Driver  "radeon"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Card0"
>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth   24
>                 Modes      "1152x864"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
> spinymouse at qrc:~$ hwinfo --gfx
>> hal.1: read hal dataprocess 2944: arguments to dbus_move_error() were
>> incorrect, assertion "(dest) == NULL || !dbus_error_is_set ((dest))"
>> failed in file ../../dbus/dbus-errors.c line 282.
> This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
> libhal.c 3483 : Error unsubscribing to signals, error=The name
> org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files 27: PCI
> 105.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.318]
>   Unique ID: ul7N.A_MYUPeZ6pD
>   Parent ID: vSkL.Objt6VSItgC
>   SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:05.0
>   SysFS BusID: 0000:01:05.0
>   Hardware Class: graphics card
>   Model: "ATI RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]"
>   Vendor: pci 0x1002 "ATI Technologies Inc"
>   Device: pci 0x791e "RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]"
>   SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc."
>   SubDevice: pci 0x826d
>   Driver: "radeon"
>   Driver Modules: "drm"
>   Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
>   Memory Range: 0xfdff0000-0xfdffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
>   I/O Ports: 0xce00-0xceff (rw)
>   Memory Range: 0xfde00000-0xfdefffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
>   IRQ: 43 (11727 events)
>   I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw)
>   Module Alias: "pci:v00001002d0000791Esv00001043sd0000826Dbc03sc00i00"
>   Driver Info #0:
>     Driver Status: radeon is active
>     Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe radeon"
>   Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
>   Attached to: #9 (PCI bridge)
>
> Primary display adapter: #27
> spinymouse at qrc:~$
>
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