Re: power management in X

[Jerome Acks Jr <jracksjr@bellatlantic.net>]

dman wrote:

> I want my display to blank (or "off" or "suspend" or "standby" or
> whatever) if it is left idle for a long period of time.  I have this
> working in GNOME if I am logged in and leave the screen saver running,
> but I want it to work even if the gdm login screen is displayed.  I
> looked at 'man XFree86-4' and found the following relevant options :
>
> # time is in minutes
> Option      "BlankTime"     "35"
> #Option      "StandbyTime"   "2"
> #Option      "SuspendTime"   "3"
> Option      "OffTime"       "60"
>
>
> They are in the "ServerLayout" section of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
>
> However I don't see anything happen if I watch gdm for a while.  (I
> tried smaller numbers before so I wouldn't have to wait long)  I also
> have
>         Load  "dpms"
> in the "Module" section and
>         Option      "DPMS"
> in the "Monitor" section.
>
> Any ideas why the monitor doesn't go black?
>
> -D

Check /var/log/XFree.0.log to see that DPMS is enabled.
You did stop and restart gdm after changing /etc/X11/XF86Config-4?

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Jerome