[lug] Screen blanking

Hugh Brown hugh at math.byu.edu
Sat Dec 10 09:47:35 MST 2005


Look in the bios, sometimes there's a setting in there..  

xset s noblank

in the X start up scripts should help too.

On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 01:40 -0700, Daniel Webb wrote:
> So I'm trying to figure out how to get a laptop to never blank the screen so I
> can use it as a picture frame.  How many different places are there that can
> cause the screen to blank?  It is a Thinkpad and I have the Thinkpad modules
> loaded and everything turned off using tpctl, but it still blanks (real
> console and X11 too).  So I'm assuming this isn't at the X11 level, but I
> don't know where to look.
> 
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