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Recently, When watching any movie, etc, on my xmbcbuntu setup, approximately every 10 minutes the screen with go black as if the pc has a power setting or screen saver kicking in.

Yet I can't find where in either xbmc or in xbmcbuntu a setting that may be causing it.

Anyone have any thoughts?
You may want to disable DPMS

Code:
xset dpms 0 0 0
xset s off

Make sure Your xbmcbuntu powersaving is also off? http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Set...wer_saving

Xbmc screesaver settings? http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Set...creensaver

uNi
(2012-11-15, 23:10)uNiversal Wrote: [ -> ]You may want to disable DPMS

Code:
xset dpms 0 0 0
xset s off

Make sure Your xbmcbuntu powersaving is also off? http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Set...wer_saving

Xbmc screesaver settings? http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Set...creensaver

uNi

Thanks for the help. Its not within XBMC that I can see as I had already checked both those setting and power saving is turned off, and screen saver is set for dim.

This is while playing a movie too. Every 10 minutes or so, the screen will go black, and a simple keyboard press will bring it back up.

Where/How do you disable DPMS? I just logged into the machine via ssh but get an error of
Quote:xset: unable to open display ""
Try

Code:
export DISPLAY=:0

then try those again have a read here too https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dis..._Signaling

its has other commands that may be better

like

Code:
xset -dpms
xset s off

The above is to disable DPMS as you asked 2nd time thers settings in xorg.conf see the archwiki site.

uNi