Re: [seul-edu] X setup

[Chris Ellec <chris@linuxforkids.com>]

Dave Prentice wrote:
> 
> Jeremy,
>     Xset worked fine on my standalone machine at home. However, on the
> networked machines at school it didn't make a difference. When I put in a
> new setting such as "xset s noblank" or "xset s 1800" then query it with
> "xset q," the new value displays onscreen just fine. However, the behavior
> doesn't change; it still goes blank after about 10 minutes. Do you know what
> file is displayed by "xset q"? Also, I can't find anything relating to time
> in the screen section of XF86Config. Is there another config file elsewhere
> under Redhat 6.2 with Gnome?


Did you try xset -dpms to turn off the saving mode completely ?

Otherwise, some BIOS have a setup for that too, usually under APM, you
could try checking there.


Chris.