From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 10 21:21:54 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69559106566B for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:21:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from asmtp1.iomartmail.com (asmtp1.iomartmail.com [62.128.201.248]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E85958FC15 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:21:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from asmtp1.iomartmail.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by asmtp1.iomartmail.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p7ALLpR6005313; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:21:51 +0100 Received: from orange.esperance-linux.co.uk (host-92-22-141-130.as13285.net [92.22.141.130]) (authenticated bits=0) by asmtp1.iomartmail.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p7ALLpED005306; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:21:51 +0100 Received: by orange.esperance-linux.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D2E2533C1F; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:21:50 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:21:50 +0100 From: Frank Shute To: Aryeh Friedman Message-ID: <20110810212150.GA38228@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Face: *}~{PHnDTzvXPe'wl_-f%!@+r5; VLhb':*DsX%wEOPg\fDrXWQJf|2\,92"DdS%63t*BHDyQ|OWo@Gfjcd72eaN!4%NE{0]p)ihQ1MyFNtWL X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64 X-Organisation: 'shute.org.uk' Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: How to turn off screen blanking X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:21:54 -0000 --VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 04:04:42PM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > I have a kiosk system I am almost done building and the last snag is > attempting to make it so idle time (no keyboard or mouse attached) does n= ot > blank the screen. I have already tried the following: >=20 > vidcontrol -S off > disabling acpi and apmd from the kernel config > enabling dpms via the kernel config and then running xset -dpms >=20 > Any other ideas? IIRC your kiosk machine is just a browser running on X. In that case, make sure dpms is enabled and try: $ xset dpms 0 0 0 That should disable any blanking. Regards, --=20 Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html --VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk5C9m0ACgkQHduKvUAgeK58HgCgxhhxhpPUoXc0EVua36eLdcG7 G30An0A4q1sOHk9oe635oJ9yw6/O61MI =pDkZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb--