[mythtv-users] How to get rid of power save

[Larry Matter]

I was battling this last night as well after upgrading mythtv and X.  The
xset command alone wasn't cutting it anymore.  Finally added this to my
XF86Config in the ServerFlags section and it solved it.

Option "blank time" "0"
Option "standby time" "0"
Option "suspend time" "0"
Option "off time" "0"

You may not need all of them, but the first one alone is not sufficent and
I was losing patients so I went straight to overkill.  I don't run a WM on
the frontend myth box so there was nothing for me to configure there.

Larry

> I went round and round on the powersave/screensaver thing some time
> ago.  Finally what did it for me was the screensaver setting inside the
> KDE control center.  I had to disable it there and then no more screen
> blanking.
>
> Nathan
>
> Tobias Luetke wrote:
>
>> Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>>
>> Ok i tryed this approach with xset and it didn't work.
>>
>> I didn't enbale the powersaving in my XF86Config in first place, so
>> xset was just complaining. ( I tryed adding it to the XF86Config but
>> that didn't change a thing ).
>>
>> The power saving only happens in text mode, text framebuffer mode, X
>> and mythtv. Never if Xine or Mpayer are running.
>>
>> I think i stripped my kernel off everything related to it, but i must
>> have missed something.
>>
>>> I believe on mine it is:
>>>
>>> xset -dpms s off
>>> xset s off
>>>
>>> The first disables power saving and the second the screensaver in X,
>>> IIRC.
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>>>> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Tobias Luetke
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 10:20 AM
>>>> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>>>> Subject: [mythtv-users] How to get rid of power save
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How do i get rid of linux power save mode?
>>>>
>>>> Since i switched back to geforce TVout from pvr350's i have the
>>>> problem that the screen goes black after about 20 mins until i move
>>>> the mouse.
>>>>
>>>> I use xfce4 and even uninstalled xscreensaver.
>>>>
>>>> I removed support for APM and power management from the kernel.
>>>>
>>>> It looks like xine and mplayer prevent this from happening, but
>>>> while i'm watching something in myth.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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