From: Gerard van den Bosch <gerard@de-haardt.com>
To: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: poky <poky@yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: Disable screen standby
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 15:53:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DD3CF45.1050706@de-haardt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305713621.3424.309.camel@rex>
On 05/18/2011 12:13 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 11:32 +0200, Gerard van den Bosch wrote:
>> My display is always going black after ~10 minutes, I assume this is
>> standby.
>> In which recipe can I disable this or change the timeout?
> Its the kernel terminal/console screen blanking which does this. A quick
> google found:
>
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-disable-screen-blanking-screen-going-blank.html
>
> which shows how to disable it on the device. I think you might have to
> patch the kernel to disable it by default. There may be an option in the
> kernel config, I'm not sure.
>
> Hopefully this at least gives you information on where to start looking.
> If you do figure it out please report back so others can benefit! :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
Thanks for the directions, I have got it working by creating a .profile file in /home/root containing the following command:
xset s off> /dev/null 2>&1
The redirection to /dev/null removes the error on the console it can't find a display.
Regards,
Gerard
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2011-05-18 9:32 Disable screen standby Gerard van den Bosch
2011-05-18 10:13 ` Richard Purdie
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