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    turning off screen saver / blanking at login screen

    When standing in the login screeen, after a while the screen goes black and you have to touch the keyboard or mouse to get it to wake up.

    What is this feature called and how do I turn it off?

    I dont have any screen savers installed besides the Blank screen one but I have changed the color and disabled it so it does seem to be that one being activated at the logon screen.

    Any hints?

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    It may be that your power management is just shutting down the screen. try booting noapm & noapci to see if it still does it.

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    Thats a good idea!
    Could look like somthing like that. I already check that it was not the screen
    itself, and checked the computer bios, but I didnt try to write the
    noapci/noamp to lilo.conf and boot with it.

    Crossing my fingers.

    Thanks

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    I still can't get rid of this annoying black screen when standing at the login.

    People thinks its not powered on and turn it off.....

    I have tried putting options into lilo, fiddled with the bios, unloaded apmd and
    tried xset -dmps. Its still goes black after some time.

    If I cant get the black screen to go away, could I get a screen saver instead?

    Somebody must have tried this.

    Pretty please

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    aha!!

    Putting

    sudo xset -dpms
    sudo xset s off

    in .Xsession for my default user seemed to fix the problem.

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