Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi all, > > I am using centos 5. I need the screen to always be on. > I have gone into System -> Preferences -> Screen saver > and then I unchecked the "Activate screen saver when computer is IDLE" > setting. > I also edited the xorg.conf and commented out the dpms line. > > However, my screen is still going into some kind of screen saver. > > What else is there to disable? Are you using the root account as a user account? I had screen blanking when I used to log in as root under SL 4.x.