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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