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Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: toothlessgrinn on January 03, 2019, 07:43:05 AM

Title: groovy arcade screen goes to sleep ( this is getting out of hand!! )
Post by: toothlessgrinn on January 03, 2019, 07:43:05 AM

ok so ya im not a linux person as ive said many times on here but im not ignorant to it either but im ONCE AGAIN having issues and cant find a solution.

took me over a year but finally figured out how to work groovy and it works beautifully EXCEPT....

after 10 to 20 min my screen goes to sleep...
how the F... do i stop that???
i found a work around for arch but it DOES NOT work for groovy..

any one got any ideas?? PLEASE!!!

THANKS.

funny how all this arcade stuff you find on line and its all 10 to 15 years old... and noone is updating majority of the stuff???
as popular as arcades are right now their should be an abundance of updated info....... but nope.... (ok sorry rant over) lol

Title: Re: groovy arcade screen goes to sleep (SOLVED)
Post by: toothlessgrinn on January 03, 2019, 12:53:27 PM

turns out groovy dont like dell monitors ..... lmao so im not the only dell hater!!! lmao!!

actually idk how but it fixed itself after i connected it to different monitor

Title: Re: groovy arcade screen goes to sleep (SOLVED!!!)
Post by: toothlessgrinn on January 03, 2019, 05:55:44 PM

ok idk wtf i did but its doing it again. if any one knows of a fix PLEASE PLEASE let me know!

thanx in advanced.....

Title: Re: groovy arcade screen goes to sleep (notSOLVED!!!)
Post by: keilmillerjr on January 03, 2019, 06:05:36 PM

Is the computer not sending video signal, or is it sending a black picture?

Groovy Arcade uses arch Linux, so maybe check out some stuff mentioned in their guide here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_Power_Management_Signaling

Title: Re: groovy arcade screen goes to sleep (SOLVED!!!)
Post by: toothlessgrinn on January 03, 2019, 08:41:11 PM

ya its funny i was just about to post my findings and seen your reply. i was just on that site about an hour ago and found the solution im posting it for maybe if someone else ever runs into this problem.

***If you want to set the BlankTime permanently, you can add the following lines to the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "BlankTime" "0"
EndSection

That’s it.***

but my monitor would go blank after 10 to 20 min weather i was in game or not. but this FIXED IT!
guess im getting a crash coarse in linux now lmao!!!

thanks though for at least replying to me keilmillerjr !! you seem to be one of the most willing to help on here!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY IN ATTRACT LAND!!

Title: Re: groovy arcade screen goes to sleep ( this is getting out of hand!! )
Post by: toothlessgrinn on January 04, 2019, 09:59:35 AM

this fix only pro longed the sleep mode or what ever... in stead of 10 min i got 3 hours but it STILL went to sleep....
ok back to the drawing board.....

but i think im getting closer....