Greg & John, So far the screen still goes black. Either it's not only DPMS or I'm editing the wrong file.
I am not at all familiar with Debian configuration. I searched around for XF86config files and found what looks about right in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 which was a link pointing at XF86Config-4-xbox. There was only a single screen definition so I commented out the DPMS entry in that section and rebooted the machine. After about a half hour I'm told that it went black again. First, is this the righ file to edit for a Xebian/XBox install or is there possibly some oter file I should be looking at? Is there anyway to query X as to the state of DPMS while the system is running to ensure it really got turned off? Last, is there possibly some sort of black screensaver running under Xebian that could be causing this? I do not see xscreensaver but I do see something called /usr/X11R6/bin/xtdesk. None of my other systems run that (in fact this Gentoo system doesn't even have it installed) so I'm not clear what it does. man xtdesk does nothing. thanks for your help, Mark On 5/28/05, Greg Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Question - we don't need any screensaver function on this Myth > > frontend. We will just turn the TV off. What feature of either MythTV > > or X is causing the screen to go black and how do I turn this off so > > that the screen is always on when people turn on the TV? > > It's DPMS - you can disable it by commenting out the DPMS line in > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > > Greg > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users