On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 17:18 -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
> I have a CentOS laptop that is running firefox in kiosk mode (which 
> rotates various system displays and metrics). I'm having problems 
> disabling the screen blanking. Not only is it blanking the screen, but 
> some time after that is does a DPMS powerdown of the display as well.
> 
> So far I have tried:
> Disabling the screensaver
> Disabling power management
> Verified that apmd is not running
> xset s off
> setterm -blank 0 -powersave off 0powerdown 0
> checked the BIOS for any power management stuff in there
> 
> None of it had any effect!  Any suggestions?

GNOME Power Manager does some of the DPMS blanking.  It should be
configurable, but for a quick check, I'd kill it and see if that goes
away :)

		--Ted