Re: DPMS broken in xfree 4.x/gnome 1.4?

[Rick Macdonald <rickmacd@home.com>]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Rick Macdonald wrote:

> Well, it took about 2 seconds to find the answer at the gnome website. I'm
> just trying it now. I don't seem to have the xscreensaver daemon running
> by default; that's probably key...
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53860
> 
>   This is not a bug, as it turns out, just a feature with
>   difficult-to-find documentation :)
> 
>   Xscreensaver 3.32 comes with gnome 1.4 from Ximian. In the
>   xscreensaver changelog for (I think) version 1.30, it explicitly
>   states that xscreensaver takes over all DPMS control.
> 
>   I happened upon the easy way to fix my DPMS control by executing the
>   Xscreensaver graphical control program:
>   xscreensaver-command -prefs

I still can't get DPMS to work.

I turned on debug output in xscreensaver, and now when the screen blanks I
get the message:

"xscreensaver: X reports monitor is shut down; not launching a hack"

So no I'm thinking maybe there is a problem with X after all.

...RickM...