disable monitor power save mode in rhel4

[prabir]

hello
I am looking after system with rhel4. The Hp workstation monitor is frequently going to powersave mode become iritating while doing work on it.
I have given following command:
#xset -dpms
#xset s off
#setterm -powersave off powerdown 0

It works nicely till rebbot. When reboot the system it again going back to earlier powersave mode.
Kindly help me to disable the power save mode permanently.
pk

[Rubberman]

This might be an issue with the display hardware itself. See if there is a display setup menu where you can disable powersave at the hardware level.

[prabir]

kindly help me to solve the above problem. or advice where to find the information about related subject.
pk

[waterhead]

It looks like you can accomplish this by adding the correct options/settings to your xorg.conf file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf). You have to edit it with root privileges.

I have never tried this, but looking at the xorg.conf man pages it looks like it can be done.

man xorg.conf

Under the "SERVERFLAGS SECTION" I see this:

Option "BlankTime"  "time"
       sets  the  inactivity timeout for the blank phase of the screensaver.  time is in minutes.  This is equiva‐
       lent to the Xorg server’s -s flag, and the value can be changed at run-time with xset(1).  Default: 10 min‐
       utes.

Option "StandbyTime"  "time"
       sets  the  inactivity timeout for the standby phase of DPMS mode.  time is in minutes, and the value can be
       changed at run-time with xset(1).  Default: 20 minutes.  This is only suitable  for  VESA  DPMS  compatible
       monitors,  and  may  not  be  supported by all video drivers.  It is only enabled for screens that have the
       "DPMS" option set (see the MONITOR section below).

Option "SuspendTime"  "time"
       sets the inactivity timeout for the suspend phase of DPMS mode.  time is in minutes, and the value  can  be
       changed  at  run-time  with  xset(1).  Default: 30 minutes.  This is only suitable for VESA DPMS compatible
       monitors, and may not be supported by all video drivers.  It is only enabled  for  screens  that  have  the
       "DPMS" option set (see the MONITOR section below).

Option "OffTime"  "time"
       sets  the  inactivity  timeout  for  the  off phase of DPMS mode.  time is in minutes, and the value can be
       changed at run-time with xset(1).  Default: 40 minutes.  This is only suitable  for  VESA  DPMS  compatible
       monitors,  and  may  not  be  supported by all video drivers.  It is only enabled for screens that have the
       "DPMS" option set (see the MONITOR section below).

The last part refers to "DPMS" option in the "MONITOR" section. Here is that part of the man page:

Option "DPMS"  "bool"
       This  option  controls  whether  the  server should enable the DPMS extension for power management for this
       screen.  The default is to enable the extension.

"bool" refers to a boolean option. I found an explanation of that:

For "boolean", the keywords "on", "true" and "yes", as well as "off", "false" and "no" respectively have the same meaning.

Most use "True" and "False" for boolean options.