[Wlug] How to stop screen blanking while watching movie?

[Clint Moyer]

Ha ha! Guilty Gibson? Wasn't he a baseball player back in the '40s?

Try changing the power settings in the BIOS. (Hit F2 while booting.)

Clint


---- Richard Klein <richspk at gmail.com> wrote: 

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Windows XP and OS X are both smart enough to not blank the screen or
invoke the screensaver when I'm watching a movie.  My P4m-based laptop
(Dell Inspiron 8200) running debian etch blanks the screen after 15
minutes, even if I disable the screensaver and all power saving
options.  I don't watch movies on it that often, so I resigned myself
to hitting the CTRL key every so often when I do.  I installed Ubuntu
Guilty Gibson on my Opteron-based desktop (Asus A8V Deluxe
motherboard) yesterday and found it does exactly the same thing.

Do you have any ideas how I can get them to stop blanking the screen,
at least while I'm watching movies?

-- 
Thanks!
Rich
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