screen blanking

[Simon]

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?