Both of my monitors (at work and home) are capable of power management, and have worked beautifully under other operating systems and (if I recall correctly) under ealier versions of SuSE. I am currently running SuSE 7.1 with the 2.4 kernel and KDE 2.1. I have the power management features enabled in KDE Control Center. Xset also reports that power management is enabled. However, the monitor remains on if after 24 hours of non use!! Has anyone else had similar problems? Is there something that I am missing or have overlooked? Would be grateful for any advice or help. Eddie
On Fri, 09 Mar 2001, Eddie Howson wrote:
Both of my monitors (at work and home) are capable of power management, and have worked beautifully under other operating systems and (if I recall correctly) under ealier versions of SuSE. <snip>
Eddie
This is a problem I've had for a wile but just havn't bugged the list with. Now seems like a good opening. I have been unable to get my monitor at home to power off when idle. It powers down when under windows. I started with the same configuration of SuSE 6.3 at home and at the job and the one at the job works (using a different computer and monitor). At home Xset seems to show DPMS is working: DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 300 Suspend: 600 Off: 900 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On I am using a Dell 4100 using an nVidia GeForce 2 displaying on a Dell P991 triniton monitor. tIA, KurtRR
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I am currently running SuSE 7.1 with the 2.4 kernel and KDE 2.1. I have the power management features enabled in KDE Control Center. Xset also reports that power management is enabled. However, the monitor remains on if after 24 hours of non use!! Has anyone else had similar problems? Is there something that I am missing or have overlooked? Would be grateful for any advice or help.
I am running 6.4 with X 4.0.2 and kernet 2.4.2. I have had this problem in the past. Solution is in Readme files for X 4.x.x. In the file /etc/X11/XF86Config, under Monitor section, put option "dpms" Under section ServerLayout, put: Option "BlankTime" "10" Option "StandbyTime" "20" Option "OffTime" "45". This arrangement has enabled power saving for me over the last several X servers, and kernel versions. Ed Harrison SuSE 6.4, Kernel 2.4.2, X 4.0.2, IBM JDK 1.1.8 or Warp 4, FP12 or Windows98 (running in vmware 2.0.3 for fun) PolarBarMailer 1.1.19a
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Ed Harrison
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Eddie Howson
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Kurt R. Rahlfs