Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

[Matthew Emmett <mwemmett@vcn.bc.ca>]

"Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net> writes:

> On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 08:36:44PM -0400, John Anderson wrote:
> > You have to compile a custom kernel with APM support enabled, and
> > monitor power saving enabled under the apm section.  The monitor
> > will use power saving only in the character mode, so if you use X
> > exclusively, you might be out of luck.
> 
> Untrue.  There's a way to enable DPMS in XF86Config (or with xset).  I
> just use my BIOS settings for inactivity time. 10-20-30


Ya, I use xset.  In my .xsession I put "xset dpms 1200 1200 1200", but
you may as well put it is XF86Config, as Eric did.

Matt