How to stop screen blanking while watching movie?
Windows XP and OS X are both smart enough to not blank the screen or invoke the screensaver when I'm watching a movie. My P4m-based laptop (Dell Inspiron 8200) running debian etch blanks the screen after 15 minutes, even if I disable the screensaver and all power saving options. I don't watch movies on it that often, so I resigned myself to hitting the CTRL key every so often when I do. I installed Ubuntu Guilty Gibson on my Opteron-based desktop (Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard) yesterday and found it does exactly the same thing. Do you have any ideas how I can get them to stop blanking the screen, at least while I'm watching movies? -- Thanks! Rich
Ha ha! Guilty Gibson? Wasn't he a baseball player back in the '40s?
Try changing the power settings in the BIOS. (Hit F2 while booting.)
Clint
---- Richard Klein
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:52:13 -0400
"Richard Klein"
Windows XP and OS X are both smart enough to not blank the screen or invoke the screensaver when I'm watching a movie. My P4m-based laptop (Dell Inspiron 8200) running debian etch blanks the screen after 15 minutes, even if I disable the screensaver and all power saving options. I don't watch movies on it that often, so I resigned myself to hitting the CTRL key every so often when I do. I installed Ubuntu Guilty Gibson on my Opteron-based desktop (Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard) yesterday and found it does exactly the same thing.
Do you have any ideas how I can get them to stop blanking the screen, at least while I'm watching movies?
'xset s off'? (if you haven't tried that already) Brian J. Conway
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 07:52:09AM -0400, Brian J. Conway wrote:
'xset s off'? (if you haven't tried that already)
also: setterm -blank 0 Eventually, I think type of functionality this will be handled automatically through the HAL/DBUS/ConsoleKit/PolicyKit stack.
Richard Klein wrote, on Oct 22, 2007 at 06:52 EDT:
Windows XP and OS X are both smart enough to not blank the screen or invoke the screensaver when I'm watching a movie. My P4m-based laptop (Dell Inspiron 8200) running debian etch blanks the screen after 15 minutes, even if I disable the screensaver and all power saving options. I don't watch movies on it that often, so I resigned myself to hitting the CTRL key every so often when I do. I installed Ubuntu Guilty Gibson on my Opteron-based desktop (Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard) yesterday and found it does exactly the same thing.
Do you have any ideas how I can get them to stop blanking the screen, at least while I'm watching movies?
Depending on what software you use to watch movies... I'm fairly certain mplayer and gxine try do this by default, as I only recall having had the screensaver kick in while watching something in totem. -- Aaron Haviland
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