Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:21:50 +0100 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to turn off screen blanking Message-ID: <20110810212150.GA38228@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <CAGBxaXkdf6tywPRf5O%2BdtSDATq8zvuQ7bmfWKmKvT4oSeUEDJQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGBxaXkdf6tywPRf5O%2BdtSDATq8zvuQ7bmfWKmKvT4oSeUEDJQ@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk5C9m0ACgkQHduKvUAgeK58HgCgxhhxhpPUoXc0EVua36eLdcG7 G30An0A4q1sOHk9oe635oJ9yw6/O61MI =pDkZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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