[feisty] Any workarounds for totem screen blanking during movies?

[Michael R. Head]

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 20:56 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 03/27/2007 08:35 PM, Michael R. Head wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 13:30 -0400, Michael R. Head wrote:
> >> Hi, I have two machines running feisty that I like to watch DVDs and
> >> videos on. Unfortunately, there's a feisty regression that's affecting
> >> me that causes the display to shut off after about 20 minutes exactly. I
> >> have screensaver and power management turned off, and I'm using totem,
> >> which should be squelching that anyway. I imagine it's either a problem
> >> with the opensource radeon driver, or some ACPI Xorg setting that
> >> gnome-power-manager isn't controlling.
> >> 
> >> Does anyone have any workarounds for this?
> >
> > I've filed a new bug on it, in case anyone else finds this problem and
> > this thread: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/97251
> > 
> 
> 
> I'd recommend the configuration editor: gconf-editor
> 
> Do a Edit|Find|screensaver and you'll find the settings, including the
> gnome_settings_daemon/screensaver setting where you can untick the box
> for "start screensaver".
> 
> sudo apt-get install gconf-editor
> 
> Then look for it in Applications|System Tools|Configuration Editor

Actually, you are right. I was mistaken in my other post. doing a
"killall gnome-screensaver" prevents the screen turn off.

Thanks. I'll update the bug report.

mike
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