Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 01:28 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:When I start X DPMS is working (monitor is turned off), however after some time it stops working (i.e. monitor is always on).[...]fglrx-driver 8.31.5-1 (proprietary driver)The first thing I would try to eliminate would be the proprietary drivers. Try without them, and see if things improve.
but free drivers have no openGL so that's not going to help me, as far as I know they are not similar at all so if I figure out that free drivers work it won't shed any more light on proprietary drivers.
I checked http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/R300 for the status of free driver, seems like the work is progressing but it's not ready yet (as far as I can tell).
any other ideas? did anybody else notice that openGL (or somnething) disables DPMS?
erik