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Re: Can't get DPMS to work with woody/sid



On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Rick Macdonald wrote:

> 
> Ever since I upgraded to woody many many months ago (on two different
> machines) DPMS no longer powers off my monitors. I just can't figure it
> out. xscreensaver blanks the screen but it never goes into power-saving
> modes.
> 
> I'm actually running woody/sid.
> 
> Can anybody claim that this works with XFree 4.x?

Some more info:

When I turn on xscreensaver debug, it puts this message on the screen when
it blanks the screen:

xscreensaver: X says monitor is powered down; not launching a hack

It seems like X thinks the monitor is powered down, but it isn't.

...RickM...



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