On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 04:04:42PM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > I have a kiosk system I am almost done building and the last snag is > attempting to make it so idle time (no keyboard or mouse attached) does not > blank the screen. I have already tried the following: > > vidcontrol -S off > disabling acpi and apmd from the kernel config > enabling dpms via the kernel config and then running xset -dpms > > Any other ideas?
IIRC your kiosk machine is just a browser running on X. In that case, make sure dpms is enabled and try: $ xset dpms 0 0 0 That should disable any blanking. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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