Re: DPMS working again after X updates on Lenny

[Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@tiscali.fr>]

On Monday 18 June 2007 00:34, Stephen Cormier wrote:
> On June 17, 2007 04:58:48 pm Nigel Henry 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.
> > 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

Thanks Stephen. That appears to have resolved the problem. Which file has
xset -dpms made changes to?

Nigel.

btw. Thanks for the link to the kernel compile tutorial. Ironically the video 
devices are being ordered correctly now, each time I boot with the 2.6.17 
kernel. I'll still go ahead with compiling a kernel on Debian though, as I 
need the practice.