monitor issue

[Ric Moore]

On 01/31/2013 01:10 PM, Preston Hagar wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Jimmy Bradley <bmobile40 at ocellaris.net> wrote:
>> I"m running Ubuntu 12.10.
>> I've hooked the pc up to our 42 inch samsung plasma tv, via the pc
>> monitor connection on the back of the tv. I have a ton of movies and tv
>> shows stored on the machine.
>> The problem I'm having, and haven't been able to solve is, if I don't at
>> least move the mouse about every 5 to 10 minutes, the tv screen goes
>> blank, even when I'm playing a video file. It's acting like it would if
>> the machine was sitting idle.
>> I've gone into the power management settings and have all the power save
>> settings set to " never" or "don't suspend" and it hasn't made any
>> difference. I've tried hooking the machine up to a pc monitor, and it
>> does the same thing.
>> Does anyone by chance know how to solve this problem?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jim
>
> I have an Xubuntu setup with Freevo running to our TV.  I had to set
> the following from the command line:
>
> xset -dpms
> xset s off
>
> where to put that really depends on your setup.  In my case, I am
> using ratposion for the GUI, so I put it in /etc/ratpoisonrc.
>
> You can try by just running the commands from the command line first
> and then if they seem to help, have them run at startup.
>
> The first one turns of dpms (energy saving features) the second turns
> screensavers off.

You got a gold star, I'm keeping this one! Ric



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