From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 10 20:04:43 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 2D9A2106564A for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:04:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5F7C8FC19 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:04:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyd10 with SMTP id 10so1089617gyd.13 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:04:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=RZvFq5b1v55qUT9UORv9ErDaaKFluQ/Ut0JP4yeFnRU=; b=GeYH2Zw2g1yhjR9a9aOpJinXjOV97Is7IaQCFh4/T+oZT3x2n2Obttmj4gNsX0qzjW 8gZ4T5WjKpxSDaiRGLBYl+ZOjHva6x4FpfF8e6hLByg3P53dc5RvmJXgzxJOLKfrD+iD C/4X01bbdJmWp6DfozuNkCTXl5uce4+T1zceA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.23.6 with SMTP id u6mr1520743yhu.230.1313006682223; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:04:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.110.164 with HTTP; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:04:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:04:42 -0400 Message-ID: From: Aryeh Friedman To: FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: How to turn off screen blanking X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:04:43 -0000 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 not blank the screen. I have already tried the following: vidcontrol -S off disabling acpi and apmd from the kernel config enabling dpms via the kernel config and then running xset -dpms Any other ideas?