Charles, I talked to an X guy, and he recommended that there might be something here to help: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting#head-95621e69f729aedde1d596b543782f95c03379a0 Some of the text he stole from your e-mail, but there is other stuff on debugging what's happening in X. You might also check to ensure it's not a monitor or video card being "smart" for you. --Ted On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 13:44 -0700, Charles Jones wrote: > 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? > > > I have additionally tried: > > Adding this to xorg.conf > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "BlankTime" "0" > Option "StandbyTime" "0" > Option "SuspendTime" "0" > Option "OffTime" "0" > EndSection > > Totally removing screensaver and power manager packages > rpm -ev gnome-screensaver > rpm -ev gnome-power-manager > > Still no luck! > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss