[mythtv-users] Screen goes blank, argh tried everything

Dan Robinson dannyjrobinson at gmail.com
Thu Jan 6 04:46:47 EST 2005


That sounds about right, I commented out the line in my xorg.conf and
last night I had no blank screens, so it would seem that the 'xset'
commands in rc.local were indeed firing too early.  I'll test further
before coming to a final conclusion.

Thanks all,

Danny


On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 17:33:04 -0000, Kevin Denniss <kdenniss at civica.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> >[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Kevin Kuphal
> >Sent: 05 January 2005 16:42
> >To: Discussion about mythtv
> >Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Screen goes blank, argh tried everything
> >
> >
> >Dan Robinson wrote:
> >
> >>Guys,
> >>
> >>Help please.  I've followed Jarod's settings to ensure the
> >>screen-saver doesn't kick-in, so rc.local contains the following
> >>lines.  I've also entered them in xterm to ensure they are definately
> >>loaded.
> >>
> >>/usr/X11R6/bin/xset -dpms
> >>/usr/X11R6/bin/xset s off
> >>
> >>I've also double checked my screen-saver settings to ensure it's not
> >>enabled, but I'm still getting a blank screen every 20-30 minutes
> >>which can be reactivated by pressing a remote key, but then I'm also
> >>seeing the screen totally blank such that the TV thinks the input
> >>signal is lost and pops up the channel id on screen.
> >>
> >>This latter behaviour requires me to press a keyboard key to
> >>reactivate the display and occurs usually 40-60 minute into viewing.
> >>Note, this seems to occur regardless of what I'm doing through Myth
> >>(DVD, TV, Music, ...).
> >>
> >>Any ideas anyone please, the WAF is getting killed on this one.
> >>
> >>
> >Do you have screen blanking enabled in your BIOS?
> >
> >Kevin
> >
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> 
> Dan,
> 
> I found that I had to run the xset commands in my X startup rather than in rc.local. I'm not sure why but I think it may be because the commands were getting run before X was started so it wasn't taking effect.
> 
> Just a thought, it worked for me.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Kevin
> 
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