Re: [mythtv-users] Screen goes blank, argh tried everything
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 -, 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 > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Screen goes blank, argh tried everything
>-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
Re: [mythtv-users] Screen goes blank, argh tried everything
Dan Robinson wrote: Good point, just checked and all power saving related features are disabled. Except the following: Video Off Method = DPMS Support Description: This field defines "video off" features. The DPMS support option permits the BIOS to control the video display if it supports the DPMS feature. Blank Screen option blanks the screen; use blank screen option for monitors without power management of "green" features. V/H SYNC+Blank blanks the screen and turns off vertical and horizontal scanning. However, all 3 options seem to want to cause some kind of blanking and I can't remember changing this option recently, but since my FC2 upgrade this behaviour seems to be occuring. Does anyone else have an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Mobo or at least an AwardBIOS with this feature? On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:41:47 -0600, Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 ___ You can also completely turn DPMS off in your xorg.conf/XF86Config file. You will probably find an entry that says Option "DPMS". Just comment that out, I think. Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Screen goes blank, argh tried everything
Dan Robinson wrote: Just found my xorg.conf contains Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Sony" ModelName"32in Analogue TV" HorizSync30-50 VertRefresh 60 ModeLine "640x480x50" 21.0 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 ModeLine "800x600x50" 33.1584 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 Option "dpms" EndSection Will the Option "dpms" cause me problems? I noticed Jarod's S-Video version contains this same line. I believe removing that eliminates the need to use the xset -dpms off line but I would just remove it in order to simplify things. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Screen goes blank, argh tried everything
Just found my xorg.conf contains Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Sony" ModelName"32in Analogue TV" HorizSync30-50 VertRefresh 60 ModeLine "640x480x50" 21.0 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 ModeLine "800x600x50" 33.1584 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 Option "dpms" EndSection Will the Option "dpms" cause me problems? I noticed Jarod's S-Video version contains this same line. Danny On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 17:07:31 +, Dan Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good point, just checked and all power saving related features are > disabled. Except the following: > > Video Off Method = DPMS Support > > Description: This field defines "video off" features. The DPMS > support option permits the BIOS to control the video display if it > supports the DPMS feature. Blank Screen option blanks the screen; use > blank screen option for monitors without power management of "green" > features. V/H SYNC+Blank blanks the screen and turns off vertical and > horizontal scanning. > > However, all 3 options seem to want to cause some kind of blanking and > I can't remember changing this option recently, but since my FC2 > upgrade this behaviour seems to be occuring. > > Does anyone else have an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Mobo or at least an > AwardBIOS with this feature? > > On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:41:47 -0600, Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Screen goes blank, argh tried everything
Good point, just checked and all power saving related features are disabled. Except the following: Video Off Method = DPMS Support Description: This field defines "video off" features. The DPMS support option permits the BIOS to control the video display if it supports the DPMS feature. Blank Screen option blanks the screen; use blank screen option for monitors without power management of "green" features. V/H SYNC+Blank blanks the screen and turns off vertical and horizontal scanning. However, all 3 options seem to want to cause some kind of blanking and I can't remember changing this option recently, but since my FC2 upgrade this behaviour seems to be occuring. Does anyone else have an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Mobo or at least an AwardBIOS with this feature? On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:41:47 -0600, Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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
[mythtv-users] Screen goes blank, argh tried everything
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. Danny ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
