Re: Strange video troubles (DPMS & nv driver)
On 08/09/2007 09:12 PM, cothrige wrote:
> I have gotten to thinking. Does nv take any flags like nvidia does?
> Could there be a setting I could manipulate when loading it which could
> help with LCD monitors, or the like? I must admit complete ignorance on
> this issue, as when I used nv consistently I had a very simple setup
> with a CRT as well. I never needed to do anything but load the driver
> for it to work.
Maybe dpkg-reconfigure xorg will help? iirc, there was an LCD question
asked.
>> fwiw, I have no Section "ServerFlags" in my xorg.conf on this etch box.
>> There are no log entries indicating screen saver or dpms actions or
>> settings.
>
> But, do you have dpms on? If so how does it know when to set standby
> and so on? Or do you use xscreensaver or the like? Do you think
> removing the ServerFlags section and then using only xscreensaver may
> have an impact? I may try that.
I don't know anything about ServerFlags.
DPMS is on: ~$ grep DPMS /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Option "DPMS"
My dpms settings are handled by xscreensaver ($ xscreensaver-demo).
Also, I sometimes call this from a script in ~/bin when not wanting to
wait for xscreensaver to kick in:
xset -display :0.0 dpms force suspend
this also seems to work to reset everything to restore proper
xscreensaver preferences after using mplayer, etc.
Hope this helps,
Ralph
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