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Re: dpms and X4



    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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