On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 15:58 +0100, Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
> I have a fresh Debian Stable installation that I am trying to use as a
> informational kiosk. The only thing I changed from the default installation
> was to switch from gdm to kdm. My problem is the screen is going blank after
> about 10 or 20 minutes of inactivity. This is what I have tried:
>
> Desktop > Preferences > Power Management:
>
> Tab - Running on AC
>
> "Put display to sleep when computer is inactive for: Never"
>
> "Put computer to sleep when it is inactive for: Never"
>
> Tab - General
>
> "Sleep type when inactive: Do Nothing"
>
> Desktop > Preferences > Screensaver
>
> "Activate screensaver when session is idle" Unchecked
>
> In bash
>
> xset s 0 ; could not connect to display error message
>
> xset -dpms ; could not connect to display error message
>
> setterm -blank 0 ; took command but nothing happened
>
> This is on an old Dell Optiplex GX280 system. I went into the bios but I
> could not see anything that would be causing the video display to go blank.
>
> Does anybody have any ideas how I can keep the monitor screen from blanking?
> I want it to be on all the time.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
Make sure you comment out the option DPMS in /etc/X11/xorg.conf as shown
here:
---snip----
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
# Option "DPMS"
EndSection
---snip----
Best,
Rob
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