[gentoo-user] Help with screen turning off

[gentoo-user] Help with screen turning off

[Geoff]

Can anyone tell me where the settings are that controls the video
signal
to the screen. My screen goes off (but still has power on after about 5
minutes and I want it to stay on all the time. I have no screen saver or
anything set.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Help with screen turning off

[Teresa and Dale]

Geoff wrote:

>Can anyone tell me where the settings are that controls the video
>signal
>to the screen. My screen goes off (but still has power on after about 5
>minutes and I want it to stay on all the time. I have no screen saver or
>anything set.
>
>  
>

If it is in a GUI, check your xorg.conf file.  If it is a server and you
are in text or command line, try man setterm and look for powersave. 
That should help.  In the past, I added mine to ~/.bash_login to make
sure it would take effect like I wanted.  It should stay set though. 
You can also by using .bash_login and .bash_logout make it cut off when
you are not logged in but stay on when you are.  That will help with
messing up your screen, if it still will.

Hope that helps.

Dale

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Re: [gentoo-user] Help with screen turning off

[Hemmann, Volker Armin]

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 03:45, Geoff wrote:
> Can anyone tell me where the settings are that controls the video
> signal
> to the screen. My screen goes off (but still has power on after about 5
> minutes and I want it to stay on all the time. I have no screen saver or
> anything set.

xset --help

 xset --help
xset:  unknown option --help

usage:  xset [-display host:dpy] option ...
    To turn bell off:
        -b                b off               b 0
    To set bell volume, pitch and duration:
         b [vol [pitch [dur]]]          b on
    To disable bug compatibility mode:
        -bc
    To enable bug compatibility mode:
        bc
    To turn keyclick off:
        -c                c off               c 0
    To set keyclick volume:
         c [0-100]        c on
    To control Energy Star (DPMS) features:
        -dpms      Energy Star features off
        +dpms      Energy Star features on
         dpms [standby [suspend [off]]]
              force standby
              force suspend
              force off
              force on
              (also implicitly enables DPMS features)
              a timeout value of zero disables the mode


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Re: [gentoo-user] Help with screen turning off

[Simon Prosser]

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 02:55, Teresa and Dale wrote:
> Geoff wrote:
> >Can anyone tell me where the settings are that controls the video
> >signal
> >to the screen. My screen goes off (but still has power on after about 5
> >minutes and I want it to stay on all the time. I have no screen saver or
> >anything set.
>
> If it is in a GUI, check your xorg.conf file.  If it is a server and you
> are in text or command line, try man setterm and look for powersave.
> That should help.  In the past, I added mine to ~/.bash_login to make
> sure it would take effect like I wanted.  It should stay set though.
> You can also by using .bash_login and .bash_logout make it cut off when
> you are not logged in but stay on when you are.  That will help with
> messing up your screen, if it still will.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
setterm -blank 0
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Re: [gentoo-user] Help with screen turning off

[Teresa and Dale]

Simon Prosser wrote:

>
>setterm -blank 0
>  
>


That too should work.  I think if you do a "setterm powersave off" it
will do the same thing.  I think that disables all the other power save,
standby and such.  Note the I think.  It's been a while since my servers
are headless anyway.  I also made sure to point him/her to the man page. 

Dale

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