FYI, I found the problem, sort of. I had xscreensaver rotating at 2 minute intervals. Every time a new screensaver loaded, it came out of standby mode. Mike On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 07:35:40PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Ola. > > Under XFree86 3.3.6, I could execute the following to turn on dpms. > > xset +dpms > xset dpms 1200 1800 2400 > > This worked great. Doing this under XFree86 4.0.3 however, it doesn't seem > to work. I can execute the commands, and looking at the output from xset q: > > DPMS (Energy Star): > Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400 > DPMS is Enabled > Monitor is On > > It appears to work. However, when it finally tries to put the monitor into > standby, it immediately comes back from standby. > > I should note that if I use KDE's control panel to enable dpms, it works > fine. > > Help? > > Mike > > -- > Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@storm.ca> > "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a > good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be > dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925 -- Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@storm.ca> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925
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