Re: Monitor power down with VESA driver

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 14:16 -0800, Gerard J. Cerchio wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Has anybody got the trick of having the VESA driver power down the monitor?
> 
> I have a IBM A31p with ati driver and screen power off works fine.
> 
> With the VESA driver on another machine even "xset dpms force off" only 
> has the screen blink off then turn right back on.

Sure.

Here are the relevant portions of my XF86Config-4:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Generic Video Card"
    Driver      "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "GatewayVX1120GWY"
    HorizSync   30-120
    VertRefresh 50-160
    Option      "DPMS"
EndSection

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