Monitor turns off after 15 minutes - why? [solved]

[Kieth 0]

For some reason, at exactly 15 minutes, power is turned off to my monitor. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the screensaver, because whether set at 5 minutes or 30 minutes, nothing changes, or with Power Management, whether turned off or on, nothing changes. I've checked through the various logs, but I didn't see anything that allowed me to understand the problem. Ideas?

 

[root@localhost ~]# uname -a

Linux localhost 2.6.36.2-desktop586-2mnb #1 SMP Wed Dec 22 17:11:08 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

 

KDE 4.5.5

 

Thanks,

Kieth

Edited March 1, 2012 by Kieth

[Kieth 0]

Ah, I forgot to mention that the monitor turns off after 15 minutes of inactivity.

[David Batson 0]

It's DPMS at work.

 

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_Power_Management_Signaling

[daniewicz 0]

Add this to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf

 

Section "ServerFlags"

Option "suspend time" "0"

Option "standby time" "0"

Option "blank time" "0"

Option "off time" "0"

EndSection

[Kieth 0]

Solved!! Thank you!

[daniewicz 0]