[ale] monitor blanking..

[Chris Fowler]

Did setterm not help?

setterm -blank 0 should be the ticket.


On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 15:38, Geoffrey wrote:
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > I had the same problem.  I fixed it in C in some software I've got
> > running
> 
> I'll keep the code, but I found a quicker, albiet lame solution.  I 
> placed the following in cron and it runs every 5 minutes:
> 
> xset dpms 0 0 0 s off
> 
> > 
> > /**
> >  *  
> >  * Function disables screen blnaking on the
> >  * VGA port
> >  *  
> >  */ 
> > static void
> > setBlank(void)
> > {   
> >     // Argument for ioctl()
> >     //
> >     // Subcode of 10 = Screen Blanking
> >     // sel_mode of 0 = Off, 1 = On
> >     char ioctlarg[2] = {10, 0};
> >     char blank[] = "\033[9;0]";
> > 
> >     
> >     int fd; // FD for VGA
> > 
> >     // Open a tty to gain access
> >     fd = open("/dev/tty1", O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY);
> >     
> >     // Issue ioctl to turn blanking off
> >     ioctl(fd, TIOCLINUX, &ioctlarg);
> > 
> >     write(fd, blank, sizeof(blank));
> > 
> >     // Close tty
> >     close(fd);
> > 
> >     return;
> > 
> > }
> > 
> > Just try to echo those chars out to tty1 and see what happens.  My
> > screen blanks no more.
> > 
> > On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 11:25, Geoffrey wrote:
> > 
> >>I've got a computer set up for my wife that does a continuous slide show 
> >>for her conference week.  I've tried everything I can think of to stop 
> >>the monitor from going blank.  'xset q' shows dpms is disabled.  I've 
> >>tried enabling/disabling all these goodies via the bios.  No good.  Any 
> >>suggestions as to how I can make this thing do what I want?
> >>
> >>-- 
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> >>
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> 
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