Rick Stevens wrote:
Simon wrote:
> Christoph Kühn wrote:
>
>> Simon schrieb:
>>
>>> Ive installed fedora core 2 onto my gateway solo 2500 laptop. Every
>>> 10 minutes, or around 10 minutes the screen blanks, although doesnt
>>> appear to power down. Im running xfce but I cant seem to find any
>>> program which would let me disable this screen blanking. The screen
>>> needs to be able to stay on even when the system is idle. How can I
>>> disable this?
>>>
>>
>> Check /etc/X11/xorg.conf for "DPMS"-Option in Monitor-Section. Make
>> use of options "BlankTime", "SuspendTime",
"StandbyTime" and
>> "OffTime" to optimize this behavior.
>> Check Man-Pages for more detailed informations:
>>
>> #> man xorg.conf
>>
>>
>> Christoph
>>
>>
>
> Im running a headless installed of fedora core 2 with no X interface
> installed, yet my screen still blanks itself after 10 minutes. As far
> as I can tell, this type of behaviour is disable in bios, and didnt
> occur when I was running win2k server on the same machine.
You're experiencing a console screen blank. To disable it:
setterm -blank 0
Does this just apply to my current session? Going back to the login
prompt my display still blanks after 10 minutes or so. Is there
somewhere i can set no blanking as the default behaviour?