Hi,

I build myself a fresh new Freevo box, with on-board HDMI which will be used
to connect te box to the TV. All works fine, but somehow I can't figure out
how to disable DPMS.

When playing video, somehow the screen stays on. My guess is that
Freevo temporarily disables DPMS when playing video(?). When playing music
however, after ten minutes the screen goes into power saving mode... and
since the music is played over the same HDMI connection, all sound is
instantly gone as well. Pretty annoying.

In xorg.conf I deleted this line from the device section:
Option "DPMS"

But without any luck. The Xorg.0.log still says it is enabled. I added the
line back in like this:
Option "DPMS" "False"

Now Xorg.0.log only says the module is loaded, but not that it is enabled.

I added this to "ServerFlags":
Option "NoPM" "True"

Again... no luck.

I added a simple script with only this to be loaded with freevo:
xset -dpms

But still the screen blanks after 10 minutes...

Looking a bit further in the Xorg.0.log I found that it complained not to
have a monitor-section for HDMI1. So, I opened xorg.conf, changed the
identifier of the monitor from "monitor1" to "HDMI1" and added the "DMPS"
"False" line. Now Xorg.0.log says "Output HDMI1 using monitor section HDMI1"
and says DPMS is loaded but not enabled... and again, blank screen after 10
minutes... *sigh*

can anyone please tell me how to disable DPMS completely? I don't want it at
all on my Freevo box. The machine is running Mandriva 2010.2 with Freevo
1.9.0.

Many thanks in advance.


Michel
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