Re: problems setting up screen blanking in X

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

green on 29/10/09 13:57, wrote:
> Adam Hardy wrote at 2009-10-29 04:00 -0500:
> > I have checked that this is the only xorg.conf being read. The output 
> > from "xset q" for the screen saver (disabled in the xfce config menu) is 
> > what I think still needs to change:
> >
> > Screen Saver:
> >   prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
> >   timeout:  0    cycle:  600
>
> The timeout is 0, so the screensaver should be off already, but:
> $ xset s off
>
> > DPMS (Energy Star):
> >   Standby: 0    Suspend: 0    Off: 0
> >   DPMS is Enabled
> >   Monitor is On
>
> disable DPMS with:
> $ xset -dpms
>
> See xset(1)
>
> That probably won't make any difference, but I'm not sure now of anything 
> else...

I found from more searching that a few people have settled on the following to 
script a solution:

xset -dpms

but I'd prefer to sort out the configuration.

Has acpid anything to do with this? I have tried running without it, but it 
makes no difference. I also have kacpid and kacpid-notify running but I can't 
see how they were started - there's no init.d start-up script for them.

Thanks for the help,

Adam