Turning off blank screen on IBM laptop?

[Colin McGregor]

Let me offer an obvious suggestion that is not on your
list, check your laptop's BIOS. I ran into that as an
issue with my Toshiba laptop ... took me longer than I
would care to admit to find my screen saver issue was
a BIOS setting...

Colin McGregor

--- Alex Maynard <amaynard-vQ8rsROW2HJSpjfjxSPG1fd9D2ou9A/h at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm using my linux IBM T21 laptop (running a
> libranet install of Debian)
> for presentations and have the problem that my
> screen goes blank after
> a few minutes of inactivity.
> 
> So far, I have tried a couple of things to turn off
> the screen saver, but
> none have worked. These include:
> 
> 1. xset -dpms
> xset s off
> 
> 2. turning off the blank screen settings in the
> Genome windows
> manager under: Applications/destop
> preferences/advanced
> screen saver
> 
> 3. Adding the following options into:
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> 
> Option "BlankTime"  "60"
> Option "StandbyTime"  "70"
> Option "SuspendTime"  "80"
> Option "OffTime"  "90"
> 
> So far none of these have worked for me. I am
> wondering if any one has any
> suggestions or experience with this?
> 
> Alex
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