on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 09:12:19AM -0600, mark@foresthaven.com (mark@foresthaven.com) wrote: > Greetings: > > I just upgraded to woody and XFree 4.0 and I have one nagging little > problem. I enabled DPMS for my monitor but it keeps getting turned > off. > > For example, I enter the following: > > xset dpms 300 600 900 > xset +dpms > xset q > > ... > > DPMS (Energy Star): > Standby: 300 Suspend: 600 Off: 900 > DPMS is Enabled > Monitor is On > > Several minutes later, though I do 'xset q' and get > > DPMS (Energy Star): > Standby: 7200 Suspend: 7200 Off: 14400 > DPMS is Disabled > > If T try 'xset dpms force suspend' the monitor goes immediately into > standby mode so I know that the capability is there. Does anyone know > why it keeps getting turned off? This is an xscreensaver bug. I'd recommend filing a bug against the upstream maintainer. xscreensaver now includes DPMS functionality. Unfortunately, this is not well documented, and the change comes as a surprise to those using other means of controling DPMS settings. I don't know a good solution, my preference is for xscreensaver to exclude this functionality, or to implement it via external reference to DPMS settings. Unfortunately, there is no .dpmsrc file standard, DPMS is started via xset, or now, xscreensaver. If there were some way for xscreensaver to determine how DPMS has been set, and preserve current settings, life might be good. Unfortunately, there's little difference between a default DPMS setting and one that's been specified by the user. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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