Re: persistent screen saver problem

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Author: Ted Gould
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: persistent screen saver problem
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


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