Disable Video ScreenSaver

 Disable & Enable Video Screensaver

This article explain how to enable or disable the video screensaver on IGEP boards.

IGEP boards have the Video Screensaver activated by default and it could be disabled following this howto.

Kernel Console Screensaver

Linux kernel has self own vtty screensaver and it can suspend the video output. The default screensaver timeout value is 10 * 60 (10 minutes) but it can be changed or disable using a kernel command line parameter.

consoleblank=<timeout value>

Where: timeout value is in seconds and 0 disables the screensaver.

You can add this parameter to your igep.ini file and control the kernel tty screensaver.

Please read the kernel documentation about console parameters.

X Server screensaver

X Server has own self screensaver that is controlled by xset command, the X Server screensaver default value is set to 10 minutes.

The xset command provides a set of options for control the screensaver, execute the command and read the help provided.

xset

Example to disable the screensaver:

xset -display localhost:0 s off

You can create your persistent rule using the xorg.conf file under Section "ServerLayout"

Useful links

http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/x-screen-blanking.html

http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man1.html