Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:26:31 -0400 From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to turn off screen blanking Message-ID: <CAGBxaXk_x6j-Lc7rucA9C0Q6EadRvPDLMZovf-Gz6ub2haqnkA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110810212150.GA38228@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <CAGBxaXkdf6tywPRf5O%2BdtSDATq8zvuQ7bmfWKmKvT4oSeUEDJQ@mail.gmail.com> <20110810212150.GA38228@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk>
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Thanks!!! will tell you the results (yes it is a browser only thing... boot into ff to a specific URL and dial out via a 3g USB wireless modem [the second part took over 2 weeks of fiddling to get all three brands of modems that will be used in production to work]) On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 04:04:42PM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > > > I have a kiosk system I am almost done building and the last snag is > > attempting to make it so idle time (no keyboard or mouse attached) does > not > > blank the screen. I have already tried the following: > > > > vidcontrol -S off > > disabling acpi and apmd from the kernel config > > enabling dpms via the kernel config and then running xset -dpms > > > > Any other ideas? > > IIRC your kiosk machine is just a browser running on X. > > In that case, make sure dpms is enabled and try: > > $ xset dpms 0 0 0 > > That should disable any blanking. > > > Regards, > > -- > > Frank > > Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html > > >
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