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gcosta

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Posted: Nov. 07 2005,12:43

Hello people,

I have a little doubt, and i hope you can help me. I am running a modified version of DSL in a kiosk pc showing advertisements, so it needs to have the monitor on at all times, even when idle. There is any way to disable the blank screen the monitor goes to after a few minutes? by the way, i'm running on XFree86, if it makes any difference.

thanks in advance.

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Posted: Nov. 07 2005,14:17

Firstly I'd like to admit that I know nothing about any of this.

But having read http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....t=9493; it seems they viewed not having screensaver/shutoff as a problem, this may be recycled into a solution for you on the proviso that you'll run Xfbdev.

Thats my 2c anyway, hope it helps!

Oscar

gcosta

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Posted: Nov. 07 2005,16:05

Quote (chickenman @ Nov. 07 2005,09:17)

Thanks for the advice, but since i am running on a lcd display, Xvesa and Xfbdev are out of question, i've tried and it doesn't work at all with the kdrive binaries. Anyway, i think that this feature can be disabled, i've researched the knoppix site and still can't find a way to disable it.
Thanks.

mikshaw

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Posted: Nov. 07 2005,17:08

Try adding one of these to .xinitrc:
xset s off
or
xset s noblank

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gcosta

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Posted: Nov. 07 2005,22:28

thanks mikshaw, you hit the nail on the head, and i slapped myself for not remembering the xset command (i've used it once to lock the mouse on the kiosk pc.)

I simply added the following commands on .xinitrc:

xset s off #to disable the blank screensaver
xset -dpms #to disable the monitor dpms feature, like suspending, etc.

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