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<DIV>That is what the problem is. And I can stop it by running...</DIV>
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<DIV>xset -dpms</DIV>
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<DIV>The powersaver configuration does nothing to control it. I have tried to
find someplace during the bootup to run that command and haven't found the right
spot yet. Something that runs after kicker is called is making the dpms active.
Where might I automate this command?</DIV>
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<DIV>Lon<BR><BR>>>> thiago@kde.org 8/16/2005 9:29:50 AM
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<DIV>Martijn Klingens wrote:<BR>>On Tuesday 16 August 2005 16:48, Lon Gilbert
wrote:<BR>>> This may be an old question but it's new to me. My screen is
blanking<BR>>> after about 3 minutes of the banner screen saver. I have
tried running<BR>>> setterm -blank 0 but that doesn't seem to work. What
does?<BR>><BR>>This seems like a power management issue to
me.<BR>><BR>>(Assuming KDE 3.4, menus may be differently named in other
versions:)<BR>>Right click your desktop and select Properties. Go to the
Display module<BR>> and to the Power Control tab. There you can select the
values that you<BR>> want.<BR><BR>If it is, this shortcut will turn it
off:<BR> xset -dpms<BR><BR>It won't turn off permanently, as
it is turned back on by the X server <BR>when restarting and by the KDE module.
But it will help you find out if <BR>this is the case.<BR><BR>xset q will also
give you some information:<BR>DPMS (Energy Star):<BR> Standby:
300 Suspend: 1200 Off: 1800<BR> DPMS
is Enabled<BR> Monitor is Off<BR><BR>If any of the times is 180s (3
minutes), you've found your culprit.<BR><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>