Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.4 and DPMS
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:04:39
Message-Id: 201102232319.21861.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.4 and DPMS by Dale
1 On Wednesday 23 February 2011 19:21:34 Dale wrote:
2 > walt wrote:
3 > > On 02/23/2011 08:28 AM, Mick wrote:
4 > >> Hi All,
5 > >>
6 > >> I noticed that since I installed xorg-server-1.9.4 my screen will not
7 > >> go into standby anymore ...
8 > >>
9 > >> According to the man pages "DPMS" is enabled by default and I have not
10 > >> disabled it.
11 > >>
12 > >> Have you noticed the same?
13 > >
14 > > No, it still works as usual. What does xset q tell you? Maybe it's a
15 > > bug in the video driver?
16 >
17 > When I upgraded to KDE4, I had to start using xset to handle turning my
18 > monitor off. I put it in the startup section and it seems to work OK.
19
20 This is strange - I added Option "DPMS" "on" under the Monitor section in
21 the xorg.conf, but it won't take.
22
23 xset +dpms works fine ...
24
25 Why would that be?
26 --
27 Regards,
28 Mick

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.4 and DPMS Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>