[plug] Q:Disable Monitor Turning Off?

[Matt Kemner]

On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Richard Mortimer wrote:

> I have a Linux box that turns the screen off after a set amount of time, is 
> there any way to disable this 'feature'?

Turns the screen off as in it puts the screen into DPMS standby mode? or
as in it blanks the screen, and the monitor takes that as a cue to switch
itself off?

To disable the automatic console blanking, type "setterm -blank 0"
If that doesn't fix the problem, check you don't have any power saving
settings in your BIOS.

Also, if the machine is running X, there is a setting to tell the X server
to set the monitor to DPMS standby/suspend after a predetermined period of
inactivity, but that is off by default (I used to set it to swich my Acer
15" into standby mode, rather than use a screensaver)

Type "xset q" to see if it's enabled.
(Last line should say "DPMS is Disabled" - if it's enabled, disable it
with "xset -dpms")

HTH
 - Matt