[helodog76]

In case anyone else runs into the screen blanking/monitor powersaving issue I finally found a solution. After disabling the screensaver and power settings with no difference I eventually uninstalled xscreensaver altogether and still experienced the issue. While digging around I came across the link below which seems to have resolved the problem.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/291135/ho...ter-10-min

Not sure if this has to do with the proprietary Nvidia drivers but adding the line

xset s off && xset -dpms

to the end of the file .profile (located at /home/{yourusernamehere}/.profile) After adding that line the monitor no longer goes into power save mode. Now my all in one Kodi-Emulator-MythTV setup is complete.

Thanks again to solbero for this solid write up.