On June 17, 2007 04:58:48 pm Nigel Henry wrote: > On Sunday 17 June 2007 20:40, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 16:39:40 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > I'd commented out the "options DPMS" line in my xorg.conf, so that the > > > monitor wouldn't keep going into standby mode every 30mins or so, and > > > up to last nights updates, (including a load of X stuff) this had been > > > working ok. > > > > > > This morning after installing all the updates, I rebooted the machine, > > > just to make sure everything was still ok with Lenny, and now I find > > > that the monitor is again going into standby after some 30mins or so. > > > The "options DPMS" line is still commented out, but appears to be being > > > ignored. > > > > > > I read a while back that xorg.conf was being deprecated, and would no > > > longer be necessary. If that is so, and these x updates have made that > > > change, where do I go now to stop DPMS being used. > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any pointers toward the file I need to look at. > > > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf is not depreciated yet. If I understand you > > correctly, you had the DPMS line simply commented out in the past. This > > means that you get the default behavior, which can change with an > > upgrade. Try to turn DPMS off explicitly by using > > > > Option "DPMS" "false" > > > > in the monitor section of your xorg.conf. > > > > If this does not have the desired effect then you should post the output > > of: > > > > grep -i dpms /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > > > -- > > Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer > > Florian | > > No go with setting DPMS to false. 20mins later after restarting X the > monitor goes into standby. It's a bit annoying as yesterday before these X > updates I had no problem, and with just commenting out the "options DPMS" > line, the monitor would not go into standby mode. > > Anyway, this is all I get from grep. > > djmons@debian:~$ grep -i dpms /var/log/Xorg.0.log > (II) Loading extension DPMS > (**) Option "dpms" "false" > (**) TRIDENT(0): DPMS enabled > > Trident is the driver for the Cyberbladei1 onboard graphics card > > A bit annoying, and I'd like to resolve it. There's nothing more annoying > than reading some document, and then the screen goes black. > > Any suggestions welcome. > > Nigel. You can always use xset -dpms to turn it off in a console/console window for the rest of your problem I have no ideas. Stephen -- GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc
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