Re: [Sheflug] Simulating Activity to Stay Awake

[Marc Kelly <marc [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Wallbank wrote:

> Unfortunately, I can't seem to suppress screen-blanking! It's not a BIOS 
> issue 
This is screenblanking of X? or of the text console?

> The right way to solve this problem would be to recompile the kernel 
> without kapmd support built in - but I haven't got all day - especially 
> for 96 machines! (Which is the planned display size).
Are you sure its not related to the "xset" command, xset q 
will tell you stuff about the x-session, and usually has 
something like
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 2400    Suspend: 3600    Off: 7200
  DPMS is Enabled
  Monitor is On

in its output. I think this is enabled by default in the 
XServer, but you can do "xset -dpms" to disable it in your 
script..

> A horrid little hack (my favourite!) would be to kid the machine that 
> there is user activity every few minutes, by piping a signal to a device 
> file that simulates keyboard or mouse input. Does anyone know how to do 
> this?

--
/\/\arc Kelly
..Just your avarage physicist trying to get by in a world 
full of normal people...
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