How to DISable display sleep on Dell PowerEdge R310
The display on these PowerEdge systems goes to sleep after some period of time. Normally, when you plug in a KVM, you have to press a key to "wake up" the display. I'm connecting these servers to a KVM switch, and I'd like the display to NOT go to sleep -- so when you select a system via the KVM switch you immediately see the console display. OS on these boxes is Linux, Ubuntu Lucid (10.04).
Solution 1:
With X11 you want to disable DPMS in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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#In the "Monitor" section, you need a line like:
Option "DPMS"
#Then, in the "ServerLayout" section (for Xorg 7.2 and later, make a
#separate ServerFlags section instead), include lines like this:
Option "BlankTime" "0"
Option "StandbyTime" "0"
Option "SuspendTime" "0"
Option "OffTime" "0"
#Alternatively try this in the Monitor section:
Option "DPMS" "False"
Mostly from: http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/x-screen-blanking.html
From outside of X11 with a login sessions you could do the following:
setterm -blank 0
setterm -powersave off
From outside of X11 without a login session you can use the following kernel parameters in your boot loader:
consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
disables the blank timer.