the xset command is your friend..... xset can "real-time" configure your X server for DPMS & Screensaver settings as well as query the current settings. You can set those in the XF86Config file. I find it easier to do all the testing with xset to find out what works best and then either add xset commands to the .xinitrc in ~ or proper options in XF86Config. Attached is a script I wrote / play with to test different combinations of xset commands to see what the XServer / driver behaves like. B-) On Friday 04 June 2004 10:29 am, Stephen F. Booth wrote:
I'm running 9.1 Professional with an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. Yesterday I noticed the new ATI drivers in ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/ATI/suse91/fglrx/3 .9.0. I installed them according to the README in that directory, and I was able to get opengl/hardware acceleration working.
This morning I noticed that overnight screensaver had not activated, nor was the monitor in powersaving mode. This was after 8+ hours of inactivity. Everything used to be great before I installed these drivers. The weird thing is that most (but not all) of the screensavers work in test mode. To top things off, I can no longer set my display resolution/refresh rate (some BS message about RANDR being too old).
Has anyone experienced this, or have any words of wisdom?
Stephen