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

[David Boucher]

Le samedi 29 avril 2006 à 14:53 +0000, Ferris McCormick a écrit :
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> On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, David Boucher wrote:
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> > 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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> Regards,

You are right ! That was the reason. Thanks !!

Cheers,
David.


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