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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