Turning off blank screen on IBM laptop?

[Alex Maynard]

On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Colin McGregor wrote:

> 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...
>

That worked! Thank you!

Alex


> 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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