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Topic: Screen blacks out..., How 2 disable sleep mode?

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mikshaw

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Posted: Nov. 19 2005,06:06

I'm not sure about the setterm command, but the xset command should be run as user dsl, not root, since it is dsl that starts the x server.

If it still doesn't work as user dsl, then it would likely be something to do with your laptop's power management, and i have no knowledge about that.

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smohrman

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Posted: Nov. 22 2005,18:25

Thanks Mikshaw for your help. I've tried all the commands and suggestions both as su and not, and the screen still blanks out. I've checked and re-checked every power setting in the bios and there is nothing else to turn of in the way of power managment.

I'm downloading Ubuntu as I write. I hate capitulate like that, but on this particular laptop I need the screen to stay on all the time as it is a network monitoring station. I also noticed that each night it goes into a sleep mode from which I cannot awaken it and have to reboot. I would think that this is the bios, but I haven't any more options there..

Thanks for your support. I love DSL, and I'm not going to give up on it entirely.... :-D

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tatlow
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Posted: Nov. 27 2005,20:41

Not sure, but here's how I got my pictureframe I've been working on to not blank

in /opt/bootlocal.sh I did:

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for NUM in `seq 0 9`; do
setterm -term linux -blank 0 > /dev/tty$NUM 2> /dev/null
setterm -term linux -blank 0 > /dev/pts$NUM 2> /dev/null
setterm -term linux -powersave off > /dev/tty$NUM 2> /dev/null
setterm -term linux -powersave off > /dev/pts$NUM 2> /dev/null
setterm -term linux -powerdown 0 > /dev/tty$NUM 2> /dev/null
setterm -term linux -powerdown 0 > /dev/pts$NUM 2> /dev/null
done

Then I created a script called "try_to_unblank.sh" that does the following:

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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mouse bs=1 count=10 &> /dev/null
echo > /dev/console &> /dev/null
echo > /dev/tty5 &> /dev/null

setterm -term linux -blank 0 &> /dev/null
setterm -term linux -powersave off &> /dev/null
setterm -term linux -powerdown 0 &> /dev/null

xset b off &> /dev/null

xset dpms off &> /dev/null
xset -dpms &> /dev/null

xset s length 0 &>/dev/null
xset s noblank &> /dev/null
xset s off &> /dev/null
xset -v &> /dev/null

This is just w/ the Vesa server (which I don't think supports most of those extensions... but better safe then sorry).
And in ~dsl/.xinitrc I just make sure to source the script.

. /opt/bin/try_to_unblank.sh

Hope it helps someone...

Smohrman
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Posted: Nov. 28 2005,05:08

Thanks so much for your help. The problem is closed now since I moved on to Ubuntu and it solved the problem.

My best to all who helped....

Smohrman

khagberg

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Posted: Dec. 06 2005,19:37

If yo do xset q it will show you the current screen saver settings. Note that timeout is set for 600 which is 10 minutes.

I ran xset s off

rerun xset q and the timeout will be 0 which means that the screensaver is disabled.

Hope it works for you.

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