No display after I tried to prevent monitor from going to sleep (blink mode)

panickk · 10-12-2019, 09:24 AM

So I was trying to prevent my monitor from going to sleep or bliking. I was surfing the web to find a solution and I saw a post where it said that I could use xset -dpms for it. So I used it and thought it fixed it but when I rebooted my pc i only got blank black screen. I heard my pc that it booted to manjaro but still only black screen. Then i saw that I could go to tty with ctrl+alt+f2 and tried to turn dpms back on with xset +dpms. But... then i got
xset: unable to open display. I get that for everything that I try to run. Any help would be appreciated!

teckk · 10-12-2019, 10:28 AM

xset -dpms disables DPMS (Energy Star) features. That's all that it does. It will only last until you turn the monitor off and back on.

It only runs in X. See man xset

What else did you do besides running that. Did you change something in your xorg.conf? Or update or change graphics modules?

panickk · 10-12-2019, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by teckk

xset -dpms disables DPMS (Energy Star) features. That's all that it does. It will only last until you turn the monitor off and back on.

It only runs in X. See man xset

What else did you do besides running that. Did you change something in your xorg.conf? Or update or change graphics modules?

I didn't do anything else, and yeah, I think turning monitor off and back on might worked, cuz I did it because I had to go so I turned off everything and when I came back I got display! But do you know how to prevent my monitor from going to sleep (blink) mode? Thank you!