Re: dpms control?
On Friday 26 June 2020 15:46:15 davidson wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday 20 June 2020 20:57:38 David Wright wrote:
> >> On Sat 20 Jun 2020 at 20:37:09 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>> On Saturday 20 June 2020 20:13:08 davidson wrote:
> >>>> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>>>> On Saturday 20 June 2020 18:22:56 davidson wrote:
> >>>>>> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>>>>>> Greetings all;
> >>>>>>> I am running an app that gets messed up if the screen blanker
> >>>>>>> kicks in, so I used xset to shut off dpms. Has no effect. So
> >>>>>>> how do I shut the screen blanker down for the jobs duration?
> >>>>
> >>>> Since we seem to be troubleshooting, what is the output of
> >>>>
> >>>> $ xset q
> >>>
> >>> gene@coyote:/media$ xset q
> >>> Keyboard Control:
> >>> auto repeat: on key click percent: 10 LED mask:
> >>> 00000000 XKB indicators:
> >>> 00: Caps Lock: off 01: Num Lock: off 02: Scroll
> >>> Lock: off 03: Compose: off 04: Kana: off 05:
> >>> Sleep: off 06: Suspend: off 07: Mute: off 08:
> >>> Misc: off 09: Mail: off 10: Charging: off 11:
> >>> Shift Lock: off 12: Group 2: off 13: Mouse Keys: off
> >>> auto repeat delay: 594 repeat rate: 14
> >>> auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf
> >>> fadfffefffedffff
> >>> 9fffffffffffffff
> >>> fff7ffffffffffff
> >>> bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100
> >>> Pointer Control:
> >>> acceleration: 20/10 threshold: 4
> >>> Screen Saver:
> >>> prefer blanking: no allow exposures: yes
> >>> timeout: 0 cycle: 0
> >>> Colors:
> >>> default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0x0 WhitePixel:
> >>> 0xffffff Font Path:
> >>>
> >>> /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/u
> >>>sr
> >>> /share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/s
> >>>har e/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,built-ins DPMS
> >>> (Energy Star):
> >>> Standby: 450 Suspend: 600 Off: 900
> >>> DPMS is Disabled
> >>>
> >>> But if I repeat that query half san hour later, something has
> >>> re-enabled dpms. Murphy?
> >>
> >> If the system insists on setting dpms, can you change those three
> >> numbers with dpms 1 2 3 only using some *very* large numbers.
> >>
> >> (DE stuff is beyond me.)
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> David.
> >
> > I just gave that a try, with 3000 6000 and 9000
>
> How did that go?
I can turn it off, once, then its back to the 7.5 minute defaults. I've
given up. I cannot force it on for more than 7.5 minutes by anything but
a mouse wiggler.
And I'm now alone, they finally found a rest home for my missus, but she
is quarantined for 2 weeks. At nearly 8g's a month. Out in the sticks,
at least a 1:20 drive from here. And getting sick of my own cooking,
but I've been doing all that since she fell and broke a hip nearly 4
years ago.
> > But ISTR doing that once before, quite a ways up the log and having
> > it reset to 450 300 600 in a half hour.
> >
> > I'll track it and see in the night when I'm up to water the daisys.
>
> How were the daisies holding up?
Not well. ;-)
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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