Re: Turning off screen blanking

Stefan Patric <tootek2@xxxxxxxxx>:
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:07:43 +0200, Joerg Redmann wrote:

What is the best way to turn off screen blanking? Putting a little
script with "xset s noblank" in ~/.kde/Autostart didn't work.

The distro is Debian Etch.

It depends. Is the "blanking" caused by the power saving feature or by
the screensaver or something else? First guess: screensaver. Launch the
screensaver config utility, and turn it off.

If it's power saving, find the power saving configuration utility, and
turn off screen/monitor power down.

I'd blame acpi. Add acpi=no or noacpi to kopt in /boot/menu.list, and
to the "kernel" line(s). Of course, this may have other side-effects ...


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