20 Jul
2013
20 Jul
'13
11:13 p.m.
Hi :)
how can screen blanking be disabled? A long time ago I have given up to
check this out for my Ubuntu Studio installs. FWIW it's not the monitor,
for an old Suse 11.2 install the screen never will be turned off.
Now I try to disable screen blanking on Arch Linux, Xfce 4.10.
$ uname -rm
3.8.13-rt14-1-rt x86_64
This doesn't work:
$ cat ~/.xinitrc
#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi
xset -dpms
setterm -blank 0 -powersave off -powerdown 0
xset s off
exec startxfce4
# exec xterm
Power Manager is enabled when starting a session, but
Menu > Settings > Settings Manager > Power Manager > On AC >
All "Actions" and "Monitor" settings are set to "never".
$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri2"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "GLcore"
#Load "v4l"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Plug 'n' Play"
ModelName "Plug 'n' Play"
DisplaySize 305 230
HorizSync 29-98
VertRefresh 50-120
modeline "1152x864" 128.42 1152 1232 1360 1568 864 865 868 910
Gamma 1.0
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>:
"True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f>
Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
#Option "MergedFB" "off" #old debian/ubuntu
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
#Driver "nvidia"
#Driver "nv"
#Driver "nouveau"
#Driver "vesa"
#VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
#BoardName "G72 [GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS]"
#BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
Defaultdepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1152x864"
#Virtual 3840 1200
EndSubSection
# SubSection "Display"
# Viewport 0 0
# Depth 1
# EndSubSection
# SubSection "Display"
# Viewport 0 0
# Depth 4
# EndSubSection
# SubSection "Display"
# Viewport 0 0
# Depth 8
# EndSubSection
# SubSection "Display"
# Viewport 0 0
# Depth 15
# EndSubSection
# SubSection "Display"
# Viewport 0 0
# Depth 16
# EndSubSection
# SubSection "Display"
# Viewport 0 0
# Depth 24
# EndSubSection
EndSection
$ ls /etc/X11
xinit xorg.conf xorg.conf.d
$ ls /etc/X11/xinit/
xinitrc xinitrc.d xserverrc
$ ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
10-evdev.conf 10-quirks.conf keyboard.conf
$ ls /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/
30-dbus 40-libcanberra-gtk-module
Regards,
Ralf