Other Help Topics :: How to disable monitor shutdown

One of the problems w/ these forums is stuff gets so lost. I added a reply to another post but I'll dup here cause I can't remember where I just added it.

For my digital picture frame I had the same issue so I solved it in two places thanks to advice from mikshaw

In /opt/bootlocal.sh I did:

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for NUM in `seq 0 9`; do       setterm -term linux -blank 0 > /dev/tty$NUM 2> /dev/null       setterm -term linux -blank 0 > /dev/pts$NUM 2> /dev/null       setterm -term linux -powersave off > /dev/tty$NUM 2> /dev/null       setterm -term linux -powersave off > /dev/pts$NUM 2> /dev/null       setterm -term linux -powerdown 0 > /dev/tty$NUM 2> /dev/null       setterm -term linux -powerdown 0 > /dev/pts$NUM 2> /dev/null   done

And then in a script (/opt/bin/try_to_unblank.sh) I added the following [which aren't all supported by Xvesa but it worked]:

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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mouse bs=1 count=10 &> /dev/null echo > /dev/console &> /dev/null echo > /dev/tty5 &> /dev/null setterm -term linux -blank 0 &> /dev/null setterm -term linux -powersave off &> /dev/null setterm -term linux -powerdown 0 &> /dev/null xset b off &> /dev/null xset dpms off &> /dev/null xset -dpms &> /dev/null xset s length 0 &>/dev/null xset s noblank &> /dev/null xset s off &> /dev/null xset -v &> /dev/null

In your ~dsl/.xinitrc file source this script:

. /opt/bin/try_to_unblank.sh

and 'viola... no blank for me