monitor issue

[Basil Chupin]

On 31/01/13 15:39, 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?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jim

Which app are you using to view the fillums?

If it's VLC (?for example) have you checked the setting where it is 
"told" to ignore the screensaver?

(Do you have the screensaver activated?)

BC

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