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Re: power management & monitor



On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Brian Clark wrote:

> Can anyone tell me why my monitor insists on going into standby mode
> when left alone for a period of time? I've turned off all power
> management stuff in the BIOS and apm appears to be disabled:
> 
> % dmesg | egrep apm
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x0b (Driver version 1.13)
> apm: disabled on user request.
> 
> I've tried poking around in the usual places and I can't seem to find
> anything.

Try this to see if X is doing it:

timshel:~$ xset -q
...
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 60    Suspend: 120    Off: 180
  DPMS is Enabled
  Monitor is On
...

...RickM...



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