[mythtv-users] screensaver issues

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/17/2007 05:21 PM, Jay Mallar wrote:
> David Brodbeck wrote:
>   
>> AFAIK MythTV doesn't mess with the DPMS settings.  I'd suggest  
>> disabling them in your Xorg configuration, though, then you know they  
>> won't get turned back on.
> That's the rub - I've disabled DPMS via xorg.conf and xset yet still 
> Mythtv restarts it...
>
> :grep DPMS *.log
> mythfrontend.log:2007-12-17 09:16:14.309 DPMS is active.
> mythfrontend.log:2007-12-17 09:52:23.434 DPMS Deactivated
> mythfrontend.log:2007-12-17 09:59:09.351 DPMS Reactivated.
>   

That's the rub ;) - MythTV only disables/re-enables DPMS if it is 
enabled when mythfrontend is started (i.e. leaves it as it was found).  
Therefore, you haven't properly disabled DPMS in your X configuration.

Mike