Some computer BIOS settings have screen power-down in them.

Alan

At 03:41 PM 10/10/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Hey PLUG.
>	I want to stop my screen from blanking.  First of all I'm not even
>in Xwindows so it's got nothing to do with it's screen saver
>functions.  I've already tried the utility setterm and set the blank to 0
>and the powersave to off.  Is there something else I'm missing?  I think
>it's tied to the root account.  Seems to me that when logged in as a
>normal user it never blanks.  Is this supposed to be a security feature
>for the root account?  The timeout is about 5 minutes...
>
>Don
>
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