what is causing my monitor to sleep

theringmaster · 2011-04-07 03:28:46

I have recently reinstalled Arch on my desktop and now I have the problem of my monitor going to sleep. I am using a minimal kde setup and I do not have any screensavers enabled. I believe a base install of arch linux is setup in a way that the monitor sleeps after a certain time of inactivity. I have had this problem in the past, but I found out the secret to it and fixed it, but over the course of time I forgot how. Any ideas? I have already looked at this thread (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=33497) and tried the fix there involving putting those four lines in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, but that didn't work for me.

JokerBoy · 2011-04-07 03:43:24

how about this?

Section "Monitor"
...
    Option "DPMS" "off"
EndSection

theringmaster · 2011-04-07 03:49:03

I'll try that, but I don't think it is an X issue. This can happen when I am at the virtual console, you know before you run startx.

JokerBoy · 2011-04-07 04:04:46

it is Xorg related for sure.

for tty's, use `setterm`

setterm -blank 0 -powersave off

check man setterm for more details.

Last edited by JokerBoy (2011-04-07 04:05:29)

my0pic · 2011-04-07 04:38:39

You can also boot with the kernel parameter

consoleblank=0

to disable the kernels built in terminal blanking.

JackH79 · 2011-04-07 05:16:19

Try

xset -dpms
xset s off

in you ".xinitrc".
- dpms turns off your energy star features)
s off turns off the screensaver
More info, try: "man xset"

theringmaster · 2011-04-08 02:11:08

JackH79 wrote:

Try
xset -dpms
xset s off
in you ".xinitrc".
- dpms turns off your energy star features)
s off turns off the screensaver
More info, try: "man xset"

this didn't work for me, I'll post my .xinitrc to make sure you guys can "crowd source" it.

#!/bin/bash
#
#user commands
OPERAPLUGINWRAPPER_PRIORITY=0
OPERA_KEEP_BLOCKED_PLUGIN=1
xset -dpms
xset s off
#desktop environments
exec ck-launch-session startkde

theringmaster · 2011-04-08 02:39:04

JokerBoy wrote:

how about this?

Section "Monitor"
...
    Option "DPMS" "off"
EndSection

I put this in my xorg.conf and now the display will only blank instead of going to sleep. now I must try the kernel setting.

this is very frustrating.

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#1 2011-04-07 03:28:46

what is causing my monitor to sleep

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