Howdy, y'all. I'm just inches away from using my wikkid new Fujitsu notebook as a DVD player. After solving the seemingly difficult problems of playing a movie in the first place (xine), playing an encrypted DVD (libdvdcss), getting hardware scaling to work on my ATI (gatos), and enabling the S-video output (atitvout), I'm left with the final daunting challenge: Turning off the #!$@ screen saver! I've tried the following (in this order): setterm -blank 0 setterm -powersave off setterm -powerdown 0 xset s off xset s noblank xset -dpms apm -i (a long shot, which is not compiled in my version) Still my video goes out every 5 minutes. WTF? I don't who or what is turning off my screen, and for what motive. But their treachery must be stopped! Surely someone on this list has the knowledge I need to restore justice. TIA, -Chuck -- Chuck Homic homic@ml1.net
On Sunday 02 February 2003 1:58 pm, chuck@vvisions.com wrote:
Turning off the #!$@ screen saver!
Are you running KDE, GNOME, or something else? In KDE, you turn off the screen saver in the control center. Others? I don't know. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org
Hi all, How can i make these things run automatically at first time of My linux boot up. 1. apachectl start > Run as root 2. /home/james/tomcat/bin/startup.sh > run as user james 3. /var/lib/pgsql/runpgsql > run as postgres Thanks.
in my distribution /etc/rc.local is executed at startup I would simply add those lines to that file: apachectl start su james -c "/home/james/tomcat/bin/startup.sh" su postgres -c "/var/lib/pgsql/runpgsql" best wishes, baris On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 03:27:47 +0700 "Aramico" <aramico@duahati.com> wrote:
Hi all,
How can i make these things run automatically at first time of My linux boot up.
1. apachectl start > Run as root 2. /home/james/tomcat/bin/startup.sh > run as user james 3. /var/lib/pgsql/runpgsql > run as postgres
Thanks.
If you installed your distribution's packages of Apache and Postgres, or other well-packaged software, it is as simple as: chkconfig httpd on chkconfig postgresql on And you can use the service command to start/stop them at any time too: service httpd start (or stop, status, restart, reload, etc.) This is all done through the magic of SysV-style initscripts: /etc/init.d /etc/rc*.d and on Red Hat systems, this is documented in: /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysvinitfiles On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 03:27:47AM +0700, Aramico wrote: aramico> How can i make these things run automatically at first time of My linux boot aramico> up. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 02:56:54PM -0500, Andy Stewart wrote:
Turning off the #!$@ screen saver!
Are you running KDE, GNOME, or something else? In KDE, you turn off the screen saver in the control center. Others? I don't know.
The answer would fall squarely on "something else." Currently it's afterstep, but I don't think the WM is a factor because it happens when I'm using no WM at all (Hardcore X) or at the VT or anything. I was grepping some kernel sources which led me to the setterm hypothesis, but I'm still nowhere. -Chuck
I thought that the VT blanking was separate from the X blanking. Any chance you're running X in frame buffer mode? Maybe then the VT blanking matters? Just a shot in the dark. -----Original Message----- From: wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Homic Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 9:49 AM To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] Blanking screen blanking @#$! On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 02:56:54PM -0500, Andy Stewart wrote:
Turning off the #!$@ screen saver!
Are you running KDE, GNOME, or something else? In KDE, you turn off the screen saver in the control center. Others? I don't know.
The answer would fall squarely on "something else." Currently it's afterstep, but I don't think the WM is a factor because it happens when I'm using no WM at all (Hardcore X) or at the VT or anything. I was grepping some kernel sources which led me to the setterm hypothesis, but I'm still nowhere. -Chuck _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:01:04AM -0500, Marc Hughes wrote:
I thought that the VT blanking was separate from the X blanking.
I'm sure it is. :) But I'm desperate. Also, instinct tells me that if there's any kind of "power management" blanking, it would work regardless of what video mode I'm in. (And with an LCD, there's no way to really tell the difference between a blank screen, and power saving.)
Any chance you're running X in frame buffer mode? Maybe then the VT blanking matters? Just a shot in the dark.
Nope, straight up XFree86 to the hardware. Really all I need is more ways to turn off screen blanking in Linux and/or X. I'll try 'em all and report which one actually worked for me. ;) But I've exhausted (I think) setterm and xset. What else is there? -Chuck
I believe they are separate. I use 'xset s off' in my WindowMaker startup script to turn off the X screen blanking, I've never bothered to turn off console blanking. -b
I thought that the VT blanking was separate from the X blanking. Any chance you're running X in frame buffer mode? Maybe then the VT blanking matters? Just a shot in the dark.
-----Original Message----- From: wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Homic Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 9:49 AM To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] Blanking screen blanking @#$!
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 02:56:54PM -0500, Andy Stewart wrote:
Turning off the #!$@ screen saver!
Are you running KDE, GNOME, or something else? In KDE, you turn off the screen saver in the control center. Others? I don't know.
The answer would fall squarely on "something else." Currently it's afterstep, but I don't think the WM is a factor because it happens when I'm using no WM at all (Hardcore X) or at the VT or anything. I was grepping some kernel sources which led me to the setterm hypothesis, but I'm still nowhere.
-Chuck
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