[mythtvnz] Screen blanks after five minutes while watching TV

[Pshem Kowalczyk]

Hi,

Might not be ubuntu specific, but that's what I have in my .xinitrc:

         xset -display :0.0 dpms force on
         xset -display :0.0 s reset
         xset -display :0.0 -dpms


kind regards
Pshem


On 26 February 2010 08:49, Ross and Jemima Knudsen
<ross.jemima at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is probably a straight forward fix but when I'm watching TV
> (either live or recorded) after five minutes the screen blanks.  I was
> running Jaunty and this wasn't happening but I did an upgrade to
> Karmic and Myth 0.22 which is when the problem started.  I realise
> that its because there is a setting in Ubuntu to blank the screen when
> its been idle and it is set to five minutes however I would have
> thought that Myth should block this from activating as other media
> players do - using Mplayer doesn't have an issue.  Has anyone got a
> fix for this?
>
> Ross
>
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