how to disable monitor goes into sleep mode

[Chakravarthi]

Hi all,

How to disable the Monitor goes into sleep mode. i'm not running GNOME or KDE, i mean i'm in run level 3 still monitor goes to sleep mode after 10 minutes.

I'm running Redhat Advanced Server

regards
chakri

[Mark Grant]

It's quite possible that your monitor does it all on it's own. I don't think linux does this but if it did, it would be in the power management options within the kernel. You'd probably need to re-build the kernel without power management. As I said though, it probably is the monitor that is doing it.

[Stuart Browne]

Unfortunately, this *IS* a kernel thing.

The monitor (as far as I'm aware) doesn't go into sleep mode unless APMd is running, but it does 'blank' after 10 minutes of no action.

It's not an easily configurable option, and I'm not sure if you can stop it from doing it, without a real kernel hack.

(I beleive it's the line:

static int blankinterval = 10*60*HZ;

in drivers/char/console.c)