Re: Display blanks when idle -- original ibook
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Xaque wrote:
> I am trying to build a digital picture frame out of an original ibook,
> using debian stable for the os. Almost everything works fine but the
> display will turn black after about 20 minutes of idle time (the
> computer does not go to sleep). Pressing the keyboard will turn the
> display back on but when its running as a picture frame there will be
> no keyboard attached to keep the display awake. At first I thought
> this was a setting in the X server but it also happens in console mode
> when X11 is not running. Is there somewhere where I can disable this
> "feature" so that the display stays on indefinitely? pmud is not
> installed and I don't know where to look to adjust these settings. Any
> help is appreciated. Thanks.
man setterm
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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