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On Montag, 30. April 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Sunday 29 April 2007 12:49:07 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> > ACPI and switching the monitor off are two completly unrelated problems. |
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> > ACPI is not evil - and some machines even need ACPI to boot. There is no |
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> > reason to not have ACPI in the kernel. |
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> I find it all somewhat confusing. APM, ACPI, others... |
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there are no 'others' and APM is completly obsolete for years. ACPI on the |
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other hand is needed for a lot more than powersaving. |
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> > And monitor - that is something for your xorg.conf and xset. |
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> Before I took dpms out of xorg.conf the monitor was being blanked after |
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> about five minutes. If kdm was still showing its login screen at that time |
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> the machine would lock solid. Having removed dpms the period is now much |
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> longer, but I still get a blank screen eventually. |
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xset is your friend. |
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