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Topic: tip: disable auto screen blanking on Doremi server
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Scott Norwood
Film God
Posts: 8146
From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 01-24-2016 03:27 PM
Central (GMT -6:00) (9:27 PM Local)
Most (all?) Doremi servers will automatically blank the screen after fifteen minutes of inactivity. This is annoying.
There are two ways around this, at least on version 2.6.4 (which is what I used to verify them):
Way #1:
select menu->system->terminal
in the terminal, type the following two lines, hitting return after each one:
xset s off xset -dpms
Any user can do this easily, but it will not persist across system reboots. It is rather fool-proof and will not damage the system in any way.
Way #2:
This method will persist across reboots, but requires the root password (readily available, but I will not post it here) and some knowledge of Linux and the vi text editor. Note that this is potentially dangerous and can possibly screw up the operating system if not done correctly.
select menu->system->terminal In the terminal, type
su
and hit return. Then, type in the root password when prompted.
Then, remount the root partition as read-write; type
mount -o rw,remount /
cd /etc/X11
cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.old
vi xorg.conf
Search for the line that says
Option "OffTime" "15"
and change the "15" to "0"; do _not_ change anything else in that file.
Quit and save the file.
edit: method #2 requires a reboot in order to take effect [ 01-25-2016, 05:43 AM: Message edited by: Scott Norwood ]
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