Gerald Richter <e9026078@student.tuwien.ac.at> writes: > But when I was running redhat 6.0 the X screen also blanked in a way > that made the monitor switch off... > why isn't that possible with my potato? In X session `xset dpms force off' will turn off the monitor right away. Xset manual page (section related to dpms option) tells how to set the timing parameters to do this after a period of inactivity. HTH. Denis