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IA-1 Screen Blanking (Jailbait)

New MessageIA-1 Screen Blanking (Jailbait) (modified 0 times) GeoDude
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Anyone know how to turn off the screen saver (screen blanking) in Blackbox? I assume this is built into the X server/window manger, and not into the BIOS or anything, right?

I'm running Rasmus' linux-3.img (which runs blackbox as an X window manager) on my IA-1. It's supposed to serve as a digital photo frame and MP3 manager, which it does, with the exception of the screen going black with inactivity! I've been sorting through Blackbox documentation, but no luck yet, and I thought this might serve the general interest.

Just FYI, the IA-1 works fantastic as a digital photo frame with a stock Rasmus image. Just mount an NFS drive with all of your digital images (300Mb here), build a staticly linked copy of xv, slap it up on NFS, and run something like:
xv -root -rm 5 -wl -wa 20 -random -view *.jpg
Looks great!!

01-24-2002 23:04:50

New MessageRE:IA-1 Screen Blanking (Jailbait) (modified 0 times) wildwildwes
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I believe you are correct that the screen blanking is done by the software. I'm running midori linux and the screen hasn't gone blank since I booted it up. I'm not sure what initiates it though.
01-25-2002 00:05:06

New MessageRE:IA-1 Screen Blanking (Jailbait) (modified 1 times) GeoDude
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Solved my own problem...

Turn off screenblanking in the Jailbait images by editing /etc/X11/XF86Config .
Change the BlankTime line to:
BlankTime 0

And add below it:
OffTime 0

NB: Commenting out the BlankTime line (surprisingly) doesn't work.

Anyone know where the Blackbox docs now reside? The links on themes.org are all 404's...

01-25-2002 08:58:10

New MessageRE:IA-1 Screen Blanking (Jailbait) (modified 0 times) DGMage
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The new Blackbox docs are at http://blackbox.alug.org/

BTW, thanks for the xv command line idea, it works great! I'd just like to find a way to get the blackbox bar on the bottom to disappear.

Kyle

01-25-2002 14:35:18

New MessageRE:IA-1 Screen Blanking (Jailbait) (modified 0 times) DGMage
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Ok, bit of a booboo on there, the link to the documentation pointed to on that page is the one that doesn't work. I did some digging around, and thanks to google's cached copies, I found the doc url. :)

http://bb.classic.themes.org/php/docs.phtml?docid=25&secid=1.1&do=Up

Enjoy!

Kyle

01-25-2002 15:11:30

New MessageRE:IA-1 Screen Blanking (Jailbait) (modified 0 times) GeoDude
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Just an addendum to the xv command line above...

If you have a bunch of files that don't happen to be in the same directory, do something like:

xv -root -rm 5 -wl -wa 20 -random -view -fl files.txt

Where files.txt simply a list of images (with full paths). You can generate one of these lists right from xv (open a bunch of images, save filelist).

I have to say, as my IA-1 flips through my entire collection of 865 digital images, I've decided that this thing was well worth $99 + $15 for the USB NIC :)

01-25-2002 21:54:18

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