> I'm sure it worked though, if i don't disable it i get 1 -2 hours maximum and > then it blanks out.
You were asking how to automatically disable it. I figured you could get some ideas on how to do that from the link. To run commands like this before the display manager starts up (the program that gives the graphical login screen) traditionally you would modify /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup or /etc/gdm/Init/Default or /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsetup or /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsetup or /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf or whatever your display manager or greeter uses. But, from what they were saying, apparently the desktops don't respect whatever the display manager has set and insist on overriding it and turning the dpms back on so once you login any settings like that are lost. That's why it only worked after you logged in. Normally to automate that after login you would modify ~/.xinitrc, with the commands DISPLAY=:0 xset -dpms DISPLAY=:0 xset s off DISPLAY=:0 xset s noblank DISPLAY=:0 xset s noexpose DISPLAY=:0 xset s 0 0 But the folks posting found that does not work anymore because the desktop manager forces dpms back on even after you login. But whatever - I'm not actually really sure what you need, anyway. All I can end with saying is that yes, I've also observed some video cards are not entirely compatible with some X servers and if you allow dpms to be on, it will bork the machine. I'm old school and I generally disable the display manager entirely on FreeBSD and Linux servers. All you get is a text mode command prompt. If I want to run X, I login at the command line and run startx so putting xset commnds in ~/.xinitrc works just fine for me. Ted
