Paul Abrahams wrote:
I'm running KDE 2.1 and I've turned on the Energy Saving settings in the Energy section of Power Control within the KDE Control Center. However, the settings have no effect;
That control only applies to an Energy Saving compliant monitor.
even when I set the interval to 1 minute, nothing happens after a minute.
It has to be enabled in XF86Config
3. In the X settings, though I don't know exactly where
Modify your XF86Config with: Section "ServerFlags" Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" Option "BlankTime" "15" Option "SuspendTime" "20" Option "StandbyTime" "21" Option "OffTime" "22" EndSection Section "Monitor" [...] Option "DPMS" EndSection
I did get from the kernel docs that there are two competing standards, APM and ACPI.
ACPI is a new standard, will replace APM I have not been able to use APM or ACPI on my PC thus far. Has anybody has it running on a PC (not laptop)? -- Rafael