[SOLVED] Screensaver overrides settings and powers down HDMI

[akbrian]

Long time Mandriva and Mandrake user, new to Mageia. I like the distro much better than Mandriva 2011 so far, thanks for the great work.

I'm using a HDMI video and sound connection to my flat screen TV as an only monitor. Regards of what I set the screensaver and power management to, the display gets powered down, which terminates the sound, when for example, I'm playing music, but not active on the computer. Then TV then unlike a monitor, doesn't go to sleep, it displays a bright blue background and "no signal". I would like the srceensaver/power management to not power down the video, but just write blanks (black screen -but not powered down) or something similar.
Desktop : Gnome, others (icewm, etc)
Video : ATI RadeonHD onboard via HDMI
current Distro Mageia 1
Note: formated / , and kept /home intact from Mandriva installs (2009 through failed 2011 install)

[doktor5000]

Well, then just disable the screensaver and enable power management and set it to suspend the screen after some time.
But this could also be some issue with old settings in your /home, please try with xguest user or a freshly created user again.

[akbrian]

Thanks for the reply, I'm giving the xguest idea a try right now, I'll report back later.

[Germ]

Try putting this in a text file:

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#!/bin/sh

xset -dpms


Make it executable and save it in /home/<username>/.kde4/Autostart

logout/login

[Germ]

Forgot to mention you should name the file noblank.sh or something similar. As long as it ends in .sh

[akbrian]

Using xguest works great, black screen -but still get sound after a period of inactivity. I'm not currently using KDE, as I like a more straightforward, less whiz bang, old school desktop, although I really like some KDE applications. But I do have old kde files in my home partition, I think perhaps I'll just delete my user (and directory) after backing up my data and then recreate the user. Thanks!

[akbrian]

Yes, deleting the old Mandriva cruff from /home/user straightened everything out.

[doktor5000]

So problem is completely solved now?

[akbrian]

So problem is completely solved now?

Yes, for this topic anyway.

[maat]

Marking as solved