X to not blank screen or switch off monitor

[Polytropon]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:48:23 +0200, Brent Clark <brentgclarklist at gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem I seem to face is that I cant get X and / or freebsd to not 
> blank the screen and / or switch off the monitor.

Sounds like you need to add

	Section "Monitor"
	        Option          "DPMS"          "false"
	EndSection

respectively.



> Ive run
> 
> xset s noblank && vbetool dpms on

In my ~/.xinitrc, I have these

	xset s off &
	xset -dpms &

to prevent blank / monitor off (suspend DPMS).



> I even set blanktime="NO" in /etc/rc.conf.

This is for the text mode consoles only. You can add

	saver="NO"

do your /etc/rc.conf, but I think it's already a default
value (check /etc/defaults/rc.conf).





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