Monitor Blanking

kwall@kurtwerks.com kwall
Mon May 17 11:41:52 PDT 2004


Feigning erudition, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
% How do I keep the monitor from blanking both in X and the command line?  I 
% think I have X figured out using Option "DPMS" "NO" in the XF86Config-4 
% file.  However, when running at level 3 the monitor blanks after some time 
% period and i have to hit a key (usually shift) to get the display 
% unblanked.  Where do I turn this off at.  It's not the monitor as I've 
% disabled that in the monitor's setup.

setterm -blank 0

Kurt
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