[SOLVED]Screensaver lives on... and on...

[RickRey]

I've tried everything I can think of, I've searched the Internet till my finger tips are numb, but still I can't completely disable the screensaver.

I've been running the Phoenix Edition xfce 4.5.1 from a USB drive on a Toshiba Satellite. Everything works as expected except the screen goes blank after about 10 minutes.

At first I went through all the Linux settings and disabled the screensaver and power management funtions, but the screensaver would still activate. Then I went through the package manager and removed everything that looked remotely related to either the screensaver or power management. Still the screensaver would activate.

I've gone through all the bios settings and nothing there appears related to this problem. If I boot XP I can turn off the screensaver and it stays off but not under PCLinuxOS.

This is a major problem for me and I cannot continue to use PCLinuxOS if the screensaver cannot be disabled.

[zerocool]

I'm having the same problem. I even removed xscreensaver in synaptic with no luck.
This is a recent problem which showed up after the update I did yesterday.
I'll keep looking for a solution and let you know if I find something that works.

It seems that VLC seems to activate the blank screen saver for some odd reason.

If anyone has any suggestions, thanks in advance.

[zerocool]

on further investigation, the process manager shows multiple instances of xdg-screensaver* (/usr/bin/) running (about 20 or so).
I shut them all down and then cp'ed it to my home dir then rm /usr/bin/xdg-screensaver

we'll see if that works...

[zerocool]

that seems to have fixed my problem... hope the same for you.

If so, please make post "solved". or if someone has a better solution
please let us know.

[RickRey]

that seems to have fixed my problem... hope the same for you.

If so, please make post "solved". or if someone has a better solution
please let us know.

There's nothing in the process list that remotely relates to a screensaver. I'm not familiar with all the various Linux process but there were a few that have the character string *acpi* in the process name. Perhaps these are related to the problem. Even if I kill them and that solves my problem I have no idea how to keep them from starting on reboot or what unintended consequences might ensue.

This is what's running, if anyone sees something that shouldn't be there let me know, and more importantly, how to get rid of it!

  PID TTY          TIME CMD
    1 ?        00:00:00 init
    2 ?        00:00:00 kthreadd
    3 ?        00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
    4 ?        00:00:00 events/0
    5 ?        00:00:00 khelper
    6 ?        00:00:00 netns
    7 ?        00:00:00 async/mgr
    8 ?        00:00:00 pm
    9 ?        00:00:00 sync_supers
   10 ?        00:00:00 bdi-default
   11 ?        00:00:00 kintegrityd/0
   12 ?        00:00:00 kblockd/0
   13 ?        00:00:00 kacpid
   14 ?        00:00:00 kacpi_notify
   15 ?        00:00:00 kacpi_hotplug
   16 ?        00:00:00 kseriod
   18 ?        00:00:00 kswapd0
   19 ?        00:00:00 ksmd
   20 ?        00:00:00 aio/0
   21 ?        00:00:00 jfsIO
   22 ?        00:00:00 jfsCommit
   23 ?        00:00:00 jfsSync
   24 ?        00:00:00 crypto/0
   27 ?        00:00:00 kpsmoused
   39 ?        00:00:00 ksuspend_usbd
   40 ?        00:00:00 khubd
   41 ?        00:00:00 usbhid_resumer
   52 ?        00:00:00 ata/0
   53 ?        00:00:00 ata_aux
   54 ?        00:00:00 scsi_eh_0
   55 ?        00:00:00 scsi_eh_1
   60 ?        00:00:00 scsi_eh_2
   61 ?        00:00:00 usb-storage
   63 ?        00:00:00 flush-8:0
   66 ?        00:00:00 kjournald
   70 ?        00:00:00 flush-8:16
  152 ?        00:00:00 udevd
  340 ?        00:00:00 flush-1:0
  341 ?        00:00:00 flush-1:1
  342 ?        00:00:00 flush-1:2
  343 ?        00:00:00 flush-1:3
  344 ?        00:00:00 flush-1:4
  345 ?        00:00:00 flush-1:5
  346 ?        00:00:00 flush-1:6
  347 ?        00:00:00 flush-1:7
  348 ?        00:00:00 flush-1:8
  349 ?        00:00:00 flush-1:9
  350 ?        00:00:00 flush-1:10
  351 ?        00:00:00 flush-1:11
  352 ?        00:00:00 flush-1:12
  353 ?        00:00:00 flush-1:13
  354 ?        00:00:00 flush-1:14
  355 ?        00:00:00 flush-1:15
  388 ?        00:00:00 kstriped
  410 ?        00:00:00 khpsbpkt
  453 ?        00:00:00 kconservative/0
  454 ?        00:00:00 kondemand/0
  478 ?        00:00:00 pccardd
  624 ?        00:00:00 acpid
  632 ?        00:00:00 syslogd
  640 ?        00:00:00 klogd
  657 ?        00:00:00 dbus-daemon
  673 ?        00:00:00 hald
  676 ?        00:00:00 console-kit-dae
  739 ?        00:00:00 hald-runner
  817 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-gene
  818 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-gene
  830 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-inpu
  838 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-cpuf
  839 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi
  840 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi
  869 ?        00:00:00 gdm-binary
  891 ?        00:00:00 gdm-binary
  893 tty7     00:00:02 X
  894 ?        00:00:00 kauditd
  972 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
 1006 ?        00:00:00 i915/0
 1876 ?        00:00:00 atd
 1902 ?        00:00:00 crond
 1923 ?        00:00:00 uuidd
 1931 ?        00:00:00 xinetd
 1970 ?        00:00:00 mysqlmanager
 1998 ?        00:00:00 mysqlmanager
 2048 ?        00:00:00 mysqld
 2673 ?        00:00:00 ifplugd
 2837 ?        00:00:00 gnome-keyring-d
 2840 ?        00:00:00 sh
 2914 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent
 2965 ?        00:00:01 net_applet
 3063 ?        00:00:00 s2u
 3125 ?        00:00:00 dhclient
 3157 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-session
 3182 ?        00:00:00 dbus-launch
 3240 ?        00:00:00 dbus-daemon
 3247 ?        00:00:00 xfconfd
 3256 ?        00:00:00 avahi-daemon
 3257 ?        00:00:00 avahi-daemon
 3271 ?        00:00:00 xfs
 3284 ?        00:00:00 xfwm4
 3285 ?        00:00:00 xfsettingsd
 3330 ?        00:00:00 smbd
 3343 ?        00:00:00 smbd
 3365 ?        00:00:00 nmbd
 3394 ?        00:00:00 Thunar
 3398 ?        00:00:00 gam_server
 3408 ?        00:00:02 xfdesktop
 3410 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-panel
 3438 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-settings-
 3448 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-volstatus
 3452 ?        00:00:01 xfce4-menu-plug
 3467 ?        00:00:00 pam-panel-icon
 3498 ?        00:00:00 Terminal
 3501 ?        00:00:00 pam_timestamp_c
 3674 tty1     00:00:00 mingetty
 3675 tty2     00:00:00 mingetty
 3676 tty3     00:00:00 mingetty
 3677 tty4     00:00:00 mingetty
 3678 tty5     00:00:00 mingetty
 3679 tty6     00:00:00 mingetty
 3689 ?        00:00:00 udevd
 3690 ?        00:00:00 udevd
 3697 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-cpugraph-
 3698 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-mixer-plu
 3701 ?        00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe
 3702 pts/0    00:00:00 bash
 3715 ?        00:00:00 thunar-tpa
 3770 ?        00:00:00 pulseaudio
 3772 ?        00:00:00 rtkit-daemon
 3776 ?        00:00:00 polkitd
 3780 ?        00:00:00 gconf-helper
 3783 ?        00:00:00 gconfd-2
 3897 pts/0    00:00:00 ps

[zerocool]

Sorry to hear my suggestion didn't work for you... but then
I'm running KDE which could be the difference.

Question, do you even have the xdg-screensaver file in /usr/bin/?

if its there try what I did anyway. It could be that the process starts
and then shuts down with activity??? Just guessing but worth a shot.

What I did has fixed my problem so far. VLC been running a loop
for over 6 hours now with no problems.

[Dragynn]

Xset. 10 minutes right? 600 seconds.

Check this thread: http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,81771.0.html

Others too if you search the forum for "xset". Hope maybe this helps

[RickRey]

Xset. 10 minutes right? 600 seconds.

Check this thread: http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,81771.0.html

Others too if you search the forum for "xset". Hope maybe this helps

El Gallo del Cielo you are the "man"!
The xset did the trick. No more pesky blank screen every 10 minutes. Crossed fingers, legs, toes...