Bug#695270: add support for disabling DPMS via preseeding

[Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>]

package: rootskel-gtk
severity: wishlist

Hi,

On Samstag, 26. Februar 2011, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > I *think* it's only an issue when using the graphical installer (as
> > I only saw it happen there, not while a text based installation was
> > running). 

/me too

> > So my best guess would be that X has DPMS enabled by
> > default, and if installation takes to long, it sends the monitor to
> > sleep?
> I guess it might make sense to support passing additional options to X
> through d-i. In this case, you might want to try passing

yes, please add support for this via preseeding. (I hope I submitted this to 
the right package.)

For my jenkins.d.n tests I work around this by using vncdotool and pressing 
"ctrl" every 5min, but thats rather lame.



cheers,
	Holger