On Sunday 09 February 2003 17:02 pm, Marc Christensen wrote:

On Sunday 09 February 2003 13:59, Bruce Marshall wrote:

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On Sunday 09 February 2003 15:33 pm, Marc Christensen wrote:

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When I had 8.0 installed, the monitor would actually turn off after the 30 minutes of inactivity. Now, after installing 8.1, it never turns off. There were no BIOS changes between installs.

What is going on here?

Look in your XF86Config (/etc/X11/XF86Config) and search for the 'OPTION "DPMS"' I'm betting there isn't one there. You can modify the file to add one.

OK, checked and it was not there so I added it. However, before doing so, I ran xset -q and this was returned:

# xset -q ... Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes timeout: 0 cycle: 600 ... DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 600 Suspend: 1200 Off: 1800 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On ...

I've always found that the DPMS Option is needed in the XF86Config... never played with the other commands.

So, is it strange that while the option was not there, it seems to have been set up for powersaving mode? Or does the option have to be there to actualy cause the powersaving to take affect?

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On Sunday 09 February 2003 20:29 pm, Paul Conn wrote:

On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 18:23:28 -0500

Bruce Marshall wrote:

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On Sunday 09 February 2003 17:02 pm, Marc Christensen wrote:

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On Sunday 09 February 2003 13:59, Bruce Marshall wrote:

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On Sunday 09 February 2003 15:33 pm, Marc Christensen wrote:

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When I had 8.0 installed, the monitor would actually turn off after the 30 minutes of inactivity. Now, after installing 8.1, it never turns off. There were no BIOS changes between installs.

What is going on here?

Look in your XF86Config (/etc/X11/XF86Config) and search for the 'OPTION "DPMS"' I'm betting there isn't one there. You can modify the file to add one.

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I've always found that the DPMS Option is needed in the XF86Config... never played with the other commands.

I am having similar problems here. Is the entry's syntax just option=dpms ?

In which section should it be added?

Section "Monitor" DisplaySize 360 290 HorizSync 31-64 Identifier "Monitor[0]" ModelName "1280X1024@60HZ" Option "DPMS" VendorName "--> VESA" VertRefresh 50-60 UseModes "Modes[0]" EndSection Section "Device" BoardName "AutoDetected" Driver "mga" Identifier "Device[0]" Option "dpms" VendorName "AutoDetected" EndSection

Regards, Paul.

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I upgrated my Athlon Kernel according to the Support site and now am confronted with a blank screen and no way to get a terminal. Booting in safe mode works fine and the KDE desktop stars. I suspected its the NVIDIA thing so I tried removing and then updating the NVIDIA kernel to no avail. I have also tried re-configuring my graphics. If someone could suggest something so I don't have to go through safe mode to start X it would be much appreciated. Thanks

On Sunday 09 February 2003 22:24, thom@cavtel.net wrote:

I upgrated my Athlon Kernel according to the Support site and now am confronted with a blank screen and no way to get a terminal.

Thanks for everyones help. The 4th or 5th time I rebooted it then worked. Kind of like an old car

On Sunday 09 February 2003 14:07, Paul Benjamin wrote:

Say could you try starting up a Konsole and at the command line typing in:

xset -q

Toward the end of the mess should appear someting like this:

DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 300 Suspend: 1200 Off: 1800 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On

Thanks, did that and infact, it did return this: DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 600 Suspend: 1200 Off: 1800 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On Dispite the fact that there was no DPMS option in my XFConfig. I have now changed that and added the DPMS option. However, I am still puzzled as to why the aparent settings for powersaving mode dispite the lack of "DPMS" in the config file.

If DPMS is not enabled the screen saver will not put you monitor to sleep. If that is the case you will need to go back to Yast2 (sax2) and make sure that you enable DPMS. You could also do a quick fix with xset by running the command:

xset +dpms

Did that now too. I'll see if it goes into sleep mode.

The problem is the next time you resart the X server you will have to re-run xset. My monitor doesn't turn off either but it goes into sleep mode. Sleep mode cuts the power use to under 5 Watts, that is good enough for me.

Actualy, mine too. It never turned off but went into sleep mode. Hopefully it will start to again. Thanks. -- Marc Christensen http://www.mecworks.com/~marc/resume/