I have an old laptop. The screen blanks after some minutes of inactivity.
I want it to stay on at all times.

I'm pretty sure this is an X/linux thing and not a hardware thing; I've
disabled all APM in the laptop and the backlight stays on. So this is
most likely X/linux blanking the screen.

I've tried 'xset s off' and 'xset s 84600' with no effect. After about 10
minutes the screen blanks.

xscreensaver is not running; there are no video timeout parameters in
gdm.conf, so I am open to suggestions. The system is running Debian Sarge...

TIA,

--Yan

Captain Dondo wrote:
> I have an old laptop. The screen blanks after some minutes of inactivity.
> I want it to stay on at all times.
>
> I'm pretty sure this is an X/linux thing and not a hardware thing; I've
> disabled all APM in the laptop and the backlight stays on. So this is
> most likely X/linux blanking the screen.
>
> I've tried 'xset s off' and 'xset s 84600' with no effect. After about 10
> minutes the screen blanks.
>
> xscreensaver is not running; there are no video timeout parameters in
> gdm.conf, so I am open to suggestions. The system is running Debian Sarge...

In Xorg you have the following options in xorg.conf


Option "blank time" "0" # in minutes, 0 disables
Option "standby time" "0"
Option "suspend time" "0"
Option "off time" "0"

These are set in: Section "ServerFlags"

In the: Section "Monitor"
You see that there aren't any line like

Option "dpms" "on"

If there is, remove it.


But then debian is usually so outdated, so it prolly don't use Xorg but an old
version of XFree86 that may or may not support this.



//Aho

J.O. Aho wrote:
> But then debian is usually so outdated, so it prolly don't use Xorg but an old
> version of XFree86 that may or may not support this.
>
You're just asking to get flamed with that - but I'll refrain since your
help was very useful.

Clinton

P.S. I'm running XOrg on my Debian laptop

J.O. Aho wrote:

> But then debian is usually so outdated, so it prolly don't use Xorg but an
> old version of XFree86 that may or may not support this.
>

Using xorg here on Debian Etch.

The only thing that is outdated is your little fiction about Debian.