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I finally got the i686 install completed, with some nice help from this forum.
I went with xfce4, lxdm and compiz/emerald.
Now my question is: the screen goes dark after a spell, even when not running the X desktop. Since this system is just for support, not the main working system, it is quite annoying.
How does one modify this behavior?
Thanks...
Last edited by keepitsimpleengineer (2012-08-04 01:37:53)
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Is it a laptop? If so, may be hardware dimming.
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No, it's a desktop (workstation). The same thing happens on my 64bit workstation, but it's not so bothersome because when using it I am constantly engaged with it.
It wouldn't be so bad except that is takes several seconds to light back up.
Last edited by keepitsimpleengineer (2012-08-02 17:18:50)
Al Einstein: "Man soll die Dinge so einfach machen wie möglich ~ aber nicht einfacher." (Things should be as simple as possible ~ but not too simple.) ~ Al (Einstein) war ein Cousin von Albert, "Al" ist die Abkürzung für Aloysius
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Laptop or not, the default setting is to blank the screen after 10 minutes. To change that:
setterm -blank 0
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Laptop or not, the default setting is to blank the screen after 10 minutes. To change that:
setterm -blank 0
Thanks.
Reading "man setterm" while waiting to see if it worked.
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Oops, didn't work, now trying
setterm -powerdown
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Oops₂ now trying
setterm -powerdown 0
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Success! using
setterm -powerdown 0
Thanks for pointing me to the right place!
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Yikes - the mouse must have gotten bumped or such,
setterm -powerdown 0
doesn't work.
Last edited by keepitsimpleengineer (2012-08-02 20:46:30)
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Have you tried powersave off?
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I am also trying to disable my screen from going to sleep (but only in X11) and I have added the two following lines to my ~/.xinitrc file (before the line that launches my X-session):
setterm -blank 0 -powersave off -powerdown 0
xset s off
The annoying thing is that the screen still falls asleep.
I have also checked my screens display settings and made sure that sleep is turned off.
Any ideas on how to solve this? Thanks...
Last edited by palomaamatias (2012-08-03 10:45:38)
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setterm has no effect on X. In X, you do:
xset -dpms
xset s off
I'm quite sure this is in the wiki somewhere already
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#DPMS
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DPMS#Examples
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Okay, I'm sorry guys. Next time I'll definitely read each wiki entry regarding the subject!
Last edited by palomaamatias (2012-08-03 11:16:58)
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Have you tried powersave off?
Alas, this gets:
~$ setterm -powersave off
setterm: cannot (un)set powersave mode: Invalid argument
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Hey thanks very much for pointing out the source for solving the problem. I was mislead thinking it was not the X system, I see now that the X system can direct the DPMS.
This is what worked:
From the X virtual teminal run the following commands as user…
xset q
xset -dpms; xset s off
xset q
xset q reports the status, DPMS at the bottom.
Last edited by keepitsimpleengineer (2012-08-03 18:06:50)
Al Einstein: "Man soll die Dinge so einfach machen wie möglich ~ aber nicht einfacher." (Things should be as simple as possible ~ but not too simple.) ~ Al (Einstein) war ein Cousin von Albert, "Al" ist die Abkürzung für Aloysius
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Wait, you were trying the setterm stuff while in X? No wonder it didn't work. You said at the beginning you're not in X, that's why I advised using setterm.
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Wait, you were trying the setterm stuff while in X? No wonder it didn't work. You said at the beginning you're not in X, that's why I advised using setterm.
Sorry for my unclarity..
Al Einstein: "Man soll die Dinge so einfach machen wie möglich ~ aber nicht einfacher." (Things should be as simple as possible ~ but not too simple.) ~ Al (Einstein) war ein Cousin von Albert, "Al" ist die Abkürzung für Aloysius
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Sorry for my unclarity..
No problem. This thread now contains solutions for both console and X, so it'll be useful to others.
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