[mythtv-users] Blank screen after 2 hours.

[Michael Rice]

On 3/5/08, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> System info:
> F8/Gnome/Myth 0.20.2
> Nvidia 169 drivers w/ GeForce 6200 AGP.
>
> I've got the screen saver disabled, and the screen blanking set to
> "never" in the power management applet. I'm also using Jarod's script
> for starting Myth so I'm setting xset -dmps and xset s off. After
> about two hours of doing anything without some sort of input from the
> remote the screen will blank. Previously pressing Return, which maps
> to 'Esc' in lirc would always wake it up but at some point it looks
> like an update changed this now it's 1 in 10. Currently I have to open
> the cabinet and press a keyboard or mouse button which is a pain.

I started having problems when I went to F8 as well.  What I ended up
doing was turning off all the KDE/Gnone screensaver/power saving
features and installing xscreensaver.  Now I can always wake up with
the remote whether it is running the screen saver or if it blanked the
monitor.

Unfortunately I enabled all the 'demos' that display our family photos
and now we seem to waste a lot of time watching the screen saver....
:)