Re: screen blanking

[Simon <admin thelight org uk>]

Rick Stevens wrote:

> Simon wrote:
>
> > Christoph Kühn wrote:
> >
> > > Simon schrieb:
> > >
> > > > Ive installed fedora core 2 onto my gateway solo 2500 laptop. Every 
> > > > 10 minutes, or around 10 minutes the screen blanks, although doesnt 
> > > > appear to power down. Im running xfce but I cant seem to find any 
> > > > program which would let me disable this screen blanking. The screen 
> > > > needs to be able to stay on even when the system is idle. How can I 
> > > > disable this?
> > >
> > > Check /etc/X11/xorg.conf for "DPMS"-Option in Monitor-Section. Make 
> > > use of options "BlankTime", "SuspendTime", "StandbyTime" and 
> > > "OffTime" to optimize this behavior.
> > > Check Man-Pages for more detailed informations:
> > >
> > > #> man xorg.conf
> > >
> > >
> > > Christoph
> >
> > Im running a headless installed of fedora core 2 with no X interface 
> > installed, yet my screen still blanks itself after 10 minutes. As far 
> > as I can tell, this type of behaviour is disable in bios, and didnt 
> > occur when I was running win2k server on the same machine.
>
>
> You're experiencing a console screen blank.  To disable it:
>
>     setterm -blank 0

Does this just apply to my current session? Going back to the login 
prompt my display still blanks after 10 minutes or so. Is there 
somewhere i can set no blanking as the default behaviour?