That sounds about right, I commented out the line in my xorg.conf and last night I had no blank screens, so it would seem that the 'xset' commands in rc.local were indeed firing too early. I'll test further before coming to a final conclusion.
Thanks all, Danny On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 17:33:04 -0000, Kevin Denniss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kevin Kuphal > >Sent: 05 January 2005 16:42 > >To: Discussion about mythtv > >Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Screen goes blank, argh tried everything > > > > > >Dan Robinson wrote: > > > >>Guys, > >> > >>Help please. I've followed Jarod's settings to ensure the > >>screen-saver doesn't kick-in, so rc.local contains the following > >>lines. I've also entered them in xterm to ensure they are definately > >>loaded. > >> > >>/usr/X11R6/bin/xset -dpms > >>/usr/X11R6/bin/xset s off > >> > >>I've also double checked my screen-saver settings to ensure it's not > >>enabled, but I'm still getting a blank screen every 20-30 minutes > >>which can be reactivated by pressing a remote key, but then I'm also > >>seeing the screen totally blank such that the TV thinks the input > >>signal is lost and pops up the channel id on screen. > >> > >>This latter behaviour requires me to press a keyboard key to > >>reactivate the display and occurs usually 40-60 minute into viewing. > >>Note, this seems to occur regardless of what I'm doing through Myth > >>(DVD, TV, Music, ...). > >> > >>Any ideas anyone please, the WAF is getting killed on this one. > >> > >> > >Do you have screen blanking enabled in your BIOS? > > > >Kevin > > > >_______________________________________________ > >mythtv-users mailing list > >mythtv-users@mythtv.org > >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > Dan, > > I found that I had to run the xset commands in my X startup rather than in > rc.local. I'm not sure why but I think it may be because the commands were > getting run before X was started so it wasn't taking effect. > > Just a thought, it worked for me. > > Regards > > Kevin > > This email is confidential and is for the attention of the addressee only and > Civica Plc, Civica Holdings Limited, Civica Services Limited and Civica > Systems Limited accept no responsibility for information, errors or omissions > contained in it. If you received this email in error, please inform us by > reply and delete all copies from your system. No legally binding commitments > are, or will, be created by this email and where it is our intention to > create such legally binding commitments, we will do so through hard copy > correspondence or documents. All email received and sent by us may be > monitored to protect the business interests of Civica. > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >
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