Screensaver / sleeping monitor?

[MkIII_Supra]

Hey I have `Drake 7.1 installed now and I forgot where and how to tuyrn off the monitor sleep function!

I have a screensaver set-up and it tests fine and will play fine for a few minutes but then the monitor goes to"sleep". It's not a major issue, just an annoyance. I got into the BIOS but there was no access control to that feature, Compaq bastards! Any ideas?

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To turn off screen blanking do:

setterm -blank 0

I think Mandrake uses rc.local so you could put it there or do:

echo "setterm -blank 0" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local

[MkIII_Supra]

Thank you, I will give it a try tonight when I get home.

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[MkIII_Supra]

Nope, that didn't work. I read the man page and all but it was really lame and obscure. Oh well I guess I can live with it. Like I said it's just an irritant.

Thank you though!

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The Dragon is swift and powerful. Beware his wrath...
Not much to say? Then shut the hell up!
http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/MkIIISupra/ (http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/MkIIISupra)

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Oops!

The above works in a console.

This turns off blanking in X:


xset s off

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