Re: dpms setting does not work for vesa

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

On Thursday 23 August 2007 23:46, - Tong - wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:33:55 +0000, - Tong - wrote:
> >> My newly installed xorg doesn't support dpms any more:
> >>
> >>  $ xset dpms force off
> >>  server does not have extension for dpms option
> >>  xset:  unknown option force
> >
> > load/enable the following module,
> >
> > "extmod"    # some commonly used server extensions (e.g. shape extension)
> >
> > I'm able to use 'xset dpms force off' again.
>
> But the problem is that none of the dpms setting is working:
>
>  xset dpms force standby
>  xset dpms force suspend
>  xset dpms force off
>
> None of the above command has any effect. I'm using the vesa driver. Is
> this a known issue?
>
> thanks

Hi Tong. I used to find that commenting out the dpms line with a # in the 
monitor section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf worked, but it does not seem to work 
now.

I use KDE, so what I am using now is a one line script in ~/.kde/autostart.

Name the script whatever you want. I've logically named it "Disable-DPMS". 
Script is below.

#! /bin/bash

# A little script to disable DPMS at login

xset -dpms

This appears to work ok, and my monitor stays on all the time.

This is on Etch, and Lenny.

Nigel.