Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:40:25 +0100 | From | Jan Hudec <> | Subject | Re: Screen goes blank, but I don't want |
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> Hi all! > > There is a machine which display I want to keep showin' on all the time. > It is the same when on X or console, the screen goes blank in around 20 > minutes. > > kernel 2.4.10-2.4.18, debian woody, with all powermanagement turned off > and not compiled in the kernel nor module, no apmd, acpid running, apm is > turned off in the bios, happens with both vesafb and plain vga text > console, too. > > X is configured no to use DPMS, all blank params eq 0 > > It happens on several machines, any idea?
I think that console blanking is never completely turned off in kernel config. It must be turned of using setterm (setterm -blank 0). Similar for X. They blank the screen by default even without DPMS - use xset to turn that off.
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