Help needed! Step-by-step NOBLANK power management

Fox0004 · September 22, 2011, 9:06pm

Hey!
Here’s the problem. I have this problem with the power management that my screen keep’s blanking after 10 min-s or so.
I found the solution to my problem but there’s the catch- don’t know how i manage to make it work.

So please, if anybody knows to explain to ‘‘noob’’ on linux how to make this to work then please help me!
I need step-by-step instruction how to make this QUOTE work!

Basically i need how-to on making that script and how to set it on autorun.

openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 6 of 6 Screen Saver / Screen Blanking

Hello deano_ferrari and here is the output from xset q:


james@linux-9w3h:~> xset q
Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
  XKB indicators:
    00: Caps Lock:   off    01: Num Lock:    off    02: Scroll Lock: off
    03: Compose:     off    04: Kana:        off    05: Sleep:       off
    06: Suspend:     off    07: Mute:        off    08: Misc:        off
    09: Mail:        off    10: Charging:    off    11: Shift Lock:  off
    12: Group 2:     off    13: Mouse Keys:  off
  auto repeat delay:  250    repeat rate:  30
  auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
                        fadfffefffedffff
                        9fffffffffffffff
                        fff7ffffffffffff
  bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  20/10    threshold:  4
Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  0    cycle:  600
Colors:
  default colormap:  0x20    BlackPixel:  0    WhitePixel:  16777215
Font Path:
  /usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/URW/,/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/truetype/,built-ins,/home/james/.fonts
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 600    Suspend: 600    Off: 600
  DPMS is Enabled
  Monitor is On
Font cache:
  Server does not have the FontCache Extension

I then created a new script file called ssreset that says:

#!/bin/bash

#: Title       : /home/james/bin/ssreset
#: Date Created: Fri Feb 4 20:43:00 CST 2011
#: Last Edit   : Fri Feb 4 20:43:00 CST 2011
#: Author      : J. McDaniel
#: Version     : 1.00
#: Description : 
#: Options     : 

xset s noblank -dpms

exit 0
# End Of Script

I added to my AUTOSTART of KDE in openSUSE 11.4 and it does seem to work.

After the above command, this is changed to:

Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  no    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  0    cycle:  600

So, this is based on only three cycles and one restart as you do need to wait at least 10 minutes each pass. On the first pass, the screen did not blank, but my main screensaver did not start either. So, I changed it from 10 minutes to nine minutes and WAM, it worked and kept working. I am not sure why having it at the same interval as the disabled one would make any difference at all. So, thanks a million and I shall keep you posted over the long hall as to if it continues to keep working.

Thank You,

Thanks!

hcvv · September 23, 2011, 12:53pm

Seems to be a double post. I will close this.

Please go to Help needed on Opensuse 11.4! Step-by-step NOBLANK power management for the other one.