Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Modular Xorg and xscreensaver

[Ferris McCormick]

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On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, David Boucher wrote:

> Le samedi 29 avril 2006 à 05:00 -0700, Duncan a écrit :
>> David Boucher posted <1146304057.16695.17.camel@denebe>, excerpted below,
>> on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:47:37 +0200:
>>
>>> Since I installed modular xorg, my monitor does not suspend. A
>>> screensaver is lauched after 15mn of inactivity. But one hour later, my
>>> monitor is always awake.
>>>
>>> My graphic card is an nvidia, the driver is given by
>>> nvidia-kernel-1.0.8756.
>>
>> It works great here!  Dual CRT monitors, but I don't do slaveryware, so
>> I'm running an ATI Radeon 9250, about the last and most advanced card to
>> have full freedomware support, both 2D and 3D/OpenGL.  Both my monitors
>> sleep just fine, using KDE configured appropriately for monitor
>> sleep/suspend.
>>
>> Emerge xset if you don't have it merged (you probably do as I believe it's
>> a dependency somewhere along the line), and run "xset" in a terminal
>> window (konsole, xterm, whatever) to get a list of the parameters and what
>> they do.  In particular, take a look at the dpms options, then try them
>> and see what the results are.  If you can xset force off or whatever and
>> have it work, you know it's working, it's just not getting configured to
>> do it.  If that doesn't work, maybe it'll generate an helpful error
>> message telling you what's missing.
>
> Thanks for your answer.
>
> I have tried xset dpms force off on my computer, the screen changed to
> blank but the monitor is not off, its power led is still green...
>
> Moving the mouse regenerates the screen, and no warnings are given by
> the command. It's as if all were ok.
>
> On my wife's computer, (a Debian Linux), the same command switches off
> her monitor. The computers are approximatly the same.
>
> This seems very strange, doesn't it ?
>
> I wonder if my monitor is not broken down...
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> David.
>

Double check your xorg.conf to make sure you have
Option       "DPMS"   "on"
in the monitor section.  Without it, you will see exactly what you are 
describing.  I am running xorg-modular + nvidia + some Samsung monitor,
and DPMS works fine.  But without the DPMS option, it works just like
your is.
(Oh, yes, this is an amd64 system, even though my signature says sparc.)

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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc)
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