screen blanking

[Rick Stevens]

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
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