From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 10 21:26:33 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 92D1D1065675 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:26:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 296A58FC0A for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:26:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyh21 with SMTP id 21so1326831wyh.13 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:26:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=Ls1nLHopltdNjUN+BYGqiheSyVoVLgrYffn+TkFN+Jg=; b=mGPMhEjq/fNKIoh9x2PUJjWTVtaZD2w75mtJij+EuPe3+Ezbk8+9h9fl+d2HmqrOr5 MX0O2WDRlJdBUVAIJBVqmnr/rv79mZ2Zpc5kz9S01Z9IjlwJek/f1xDx5o4n1KrgZY7Z JkBdoi+3t4qODVAomzlwnz7ZYxN3/DHSjPVz4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.24.30 with SMTP id w30mr1025964wew.68.1313011591976; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:26:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.90.211 with HTTP; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:26:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110810212150.GA38228@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <20110810212150.GA38228@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:26:31 -0400 Message-ID: From: Aryeh Friedman To: Frank Shute Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:26:33 -0000 Thanks!!! will tell you the results (yes it is a browser only thing... boot into ff to a specific URL and dial out via a 3g USB wireless modem [the second part took over 2 weeks of fiddling to get all three brands of modems that will be used in production to work]) On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Frank Shute wrote: > 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 > 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? > > 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, > > -- > > Frank > > Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html > > >