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Mick wrote: |
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> On Thursday 24 February 2011 16:23:31 Dale wrote: |
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>> I think there is a thread where I asked the same thing. When I first |
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>> upgraded to KDE4, my monitor would not turn off unless I turned it off |
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>> myself. I set up a script that runs when I login to cut off the |
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>> monitor. I have another script that sets it back when I log out. I put |
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>> it in ~.kde4/Autostart. It's the same commands I tested manually and it |
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>> works fine. |
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>> If I recall correctly, KDE was not quite up to speed on controlling the |
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>> monitor with DPMS yet. That was back in the 4.1 days so that may have |
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>> changed but given you are having issues with it, maybe it is still |
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>> having problems. This could be due to the hal/udev/polkit switch as |
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>> well. They may be letting all that settle so that they only have to |
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>> write the code once. I would do that if it was me. ;-) |
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>> This is my settings when I am logged in: |
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>> xset dpms 3600 3600 3600 |
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>> I think that is one hour. I'm pretty sure it is measured in seconds not |
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>> minutes. |
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> I would have thought that DPMS is a an xorg function/issue, rather than KDE's. |
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> Things went sideways here when I upgrade xorg-server from 1.9.2 to 1.9.4. |
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I thought the same thing. Thing is, there are settings in KDE to tell |
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it when to blank, cut off and all that. I just know I couldn't get it |
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to work until I did the things I posted. It didn't make much sense but |
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it works now. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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