[ale] setterm -powersave off -blank 0

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Tue Jul 29 00:58:35 EDT 2014


On 2014-07-28 20:19, William Coles wrote:
> It's a n00b question, I know, but...this has been driving me crazy and
> I'm trying to resolve it. I am running CentOS 6.5 on an HP Pavilion
> laptop (dv4-5110us). After about 5 minutes of no activity the display
> goes blank from (I'm assuming) powersave mode. Things I have tried to
> resolve it include:
> 
> 1) Setting "Put display to sleep when inactive for:" to "Never"
> 
> 2) Dropping to runlevel 3 and as root typing
> 
> $ setterm -powersave off -blank 0
> 
> 2) Adding the following to /etc/rc.local
> 
> /usr/bin/setterm -powersave off -blank 0
> 
> 3) In /etc/X11/xorg.config adding
> 
> Section "ServerFlags"
>     Option    "blank time" "0"
>     Option    "standby time" "0"
>     Option    "suspend time" "0"
>     Option    "off time" "0"
> EndSection
> 
> None of the above has resolved the issue. The display continues to go to
> sleep after about 5 minutes.
> 
> Anything else to try? What am I missing?

Check the BIOS for power saving settings?



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