screen blanking

[Simon]

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.