Re: Screen blanks even though USB keyboard is used

From: Sherif Ghali (myLastname_at_cs.ualberta.ca)
Date: 02/22/04 

Date: 22 Feb 2004 02:41:05 -0700

H. Dziardziel <hdzi@zworg.nospamcom> writes:

>
> Tried setterm [ -blank [ 0-60 ] ]?
> man setterm

I've tried several X variations:

1- setterm -blank 0
2- xset s noblank
3- xset -dpms
4- xset s off
5- look for a line containing 'setterm' in /etc/rc.d/ and comment it out
   (no such line in ls -lR of that directory)

None of these work.

The trouble appears to be:

  1- The keyboard events received through USB do not reset
     the blanking timer.

and/or

  2- Requesting no blanking (via 'setterm -blank 0') is ignored.

Sherif

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