Re: Monitor power down with VESA driver

["Gerard J. Cerchio" <gjpc@circlesoft.com>]

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

Thanks Ron,

I guess you are confirming that the the VESA driver does blank your screen.
I do have these settings in my XF86Config :(
I must be having some BIOS interaction problem on the non-blanking system.

Best Regards,

Gerard