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post #1 of 9
4/25/05 at 9:53pm
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I have a bit of a weird problem I think. I run Ubuntu linux right now and I have a problem with my screen shutting off. When I watch movies or video clips on my computer it does not realize that I am using the computer and every minute the screen turns off which is quite an annoyance to have to move the mouse or hit a key every minute. I also have my screen saver shut off. I originally thought this might be a setting in my bios ( It is a toshiba satellite A45 by the way) but I cannot find anything in there that fixes the problem. I also have all Power Management disabled for the computer. I used to rune SuSE linux a while back and I never had this problem. I have tried asking in the ubuntu forusm but they cannot figure out what is going on so I thought id try a notebook specific forum. Thanks for any help.
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post #2 of 9
4/26/05 at 1:55am
hmm... try removing the line, Option "DPMS" in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file... That'll make sure that the screen cannot turn off. Although, it might still blank, but we will see what happens...
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post #3 of 9
4/26/05 at 7:33am
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Originally Posted by danip
I have a bit of a weird problem I think. I run Ubuntu linux right now and I have a problem with my screen shutting off. When I watch movies or video clips on my computer it does not realize that I am using the computer and every minute the screen turns off which is quite an annoyance to have to move the mouse or hit a key every minute. I also have my screen saver shut off. I originally thought this might be a setting in my bios ( It is a toshiba satellite A45 by the way) but I cannot find anything in there that fixes the problem. I also have all Power Management disabled for the computer. I used to rune SuSE linux a while back and I never had this problem. I have tried asking in the ubuntu forusm but they cannot figure out what is going on so I thought id try a notebook specific forum. Thanks for any help.
What movie player are you running? If its mplayer try putting
stop-xscreensaver = yes
in your config

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Shawn
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post #4 of 9
4/27/05 at 1:11am
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I removed that line still shut off after about a minute. I tried making sure xscreen saver was killed by doing this

PHP Code:
sudo ps -ax | grep xscreen
Did that to find out what its process number was and then I killed it. Still shut off.
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post #5 of 9
4/27/05 at 8:25am
The problem is that your movie player is not emulating activity to X so your screen goes blank after said amount of time. Can not troubleshoot further without knowing which program you are using.

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post #6 of 9
4/27/05 at 1:29pm
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Sorry. I am using vlc and sometimes xine.
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post #7 of 9
4/27/05 at 3:44pm
Also might help to know what make and modle of laptop it is. Could it be a bios thing?
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post #8 of 9
4/27/05 at 4:19pm
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I thought it was a bios thing but I have changed all sorts of things in there and not found anything to work. There is a section in there called powermanagement and I changed it so it said screen never powers off bug that did not do anything.

It is a Toshiba Satellite A45
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post #9 of 9
4/27/05 at 8:04pm
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Originally Posted by danip
Sorry. I am using vlc and sometimes xine.
Sorry I dont use either of those players. Try this forum . Hopefully they can offer you better help there.
I would suggest puttting all your settings back to normal and doing an apt-get totem or mplayer until you get this VLC issue resolved. Also for future reference "xset" is the tool you want to view and change settings pertaining to your xserver.

# xset -q //will give you status
# xset -dpms //disables DPMS
# xset +dpms //enables DPMS
# man xset //to list em all

Sorry I couldnt help further

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