Ubuntu 9.04 - Keep Screen from Blanking?
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Well after many hours spent on the net looking for solutions and many hours sat in front of XBMC waiting 2hrs for teh screen to "die" here is what I'ev found to be the best solution :-


Here were the steps I followed to 100% disable all power management.

1. Installed Boot Up Manager

Code:
sudo apt-get install bum

2. De-select the following services (if they exist)

powernowd
apmd
acpi-support
acpid

3. Disable Gnome-Power-Manager from starting up when you boot into gnome.
Code:
System->Preferences->Sessions (Start-up ??)

4. Add a command to your start-up

System->Preferences->Start-up

xset -dpms



Hope that helps anyone else who might be trying to trouble-shoot this.


Not my own work, but I can't remember where I got this from. All I know is it works and I can now run XBMC on my ASROCK using just the remote and the screen never times out. Result!

I'm a complete noobie to all of this, so I'm not even 100% why it works. ACPI is something that controls DPMS (I think) and you need to turn it off completely.

Ignore anything you see about changing xorg.conf settings, I've left these well alone and it all seems to work.

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