monitor issue

[Steven Grace]

On 01/30/2013 08:39 PM, Jimmy Bradley 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?

Do you have the screensaver enabled?