screen blanking

[Christoph Kühn]

Simon schrieb:
> Ive installed fedora core 2 onto my gateway solo 2500 laptop. Every 10 
> minutes, or around 10 minutes the screen blanks, although doesnt appear 
> to power down. Im running xfce but I cant seem to find any program which 
> would let me disable this screen blanking. The screen needs to be able 
> to stay on even when the system is idle. How can I disable this?
> 

Check /etc/X11/xorg.conf for "DPMS"-Option in Monitor-Section. Make use 
of options "BlankTime", "SuspendTime", "StandbyTime" and "OffTime" to 
optimize this behavior.
Check Man-Pages for more detailed informations:

#> man xorg.conf


Christoph