That is truly bizarre. On my system, fso-deviced is not installed.
What I found that finally worked is changing xorg.conf, adding the line Option "dpms" "false" in the "Server Flags" section, and removing the Option "DPMS" line from the "Monitor" section. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/952521 Title: Screen blanking and dpms can't be turned off Status in “xorg” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: This is Kubuntu-11.10, all current updates applied, 64-bit. the problem is the screen keeps blanking -- going to black every few seconds, regularly, and moving the mouse does restore the normal screen. I do not have any screensavers activated, and everything on Power save is turned off. I tried turning off dpms with: xset dpms 0 0 0 xset dpms off xset -dpms And then maybe 30 seconds later, the screen goes black, and checking with xset -q, dpms has been turned back on. I cannot figure out how to completely disable dpms. this is extremely irritating, as I cannot work with the screen going black every few seconds. Something is turning it back on, and I haven't been able to figure out what. I set up xorg.conf to disable dpms with: Section "ServerFlags" Option "blank time" "0" Option "standby time" "0" Option "suspend time" "0" Option "off time" "0" Option "dpms" "false" EndSection After logging in, xset shows dpms is disabled, but after a few seconds, it comes back on. Is there a way to shut this off, once and for all? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/952521/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
