Re: There is no signal coming from your computer..
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:02 AM, lee<lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 06:29:34PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>
>> Another debian-user reported having similar problems. In the morning when I get in, I do not have any problems. This seems to only appears on a shorted breaks. And my dell 2709W / DisplayPort clearly state: "There is no signal coming from your computer..."
>
> Afair that happened to me when I was using a graphics card that didn't
> have a HDMI output on a Hannspree HF289H. It was working fine until
> DPMS would become active.
>
> DPMS turns off the signal the graphic card sends to turn off the
> display. The signal is turned back on when you type on the keyboard or
> move the mouse. Apparently the monitor didn't "realize" that the
> signal from the graphics card was back and remained turned off and
> continued to insist that there's no signal from the graphics card.
>
> Check your combination of monitor and graphics card --- if you can't
> fix/change that, you can try to turn off DPMS (disable it in xorg.conf
> or maybe use xset to turn it off) and see what happens.
Just FYI, xset'ing off DPMS did work for me :)
Thanks everyone !
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Mathieu
http://mathieumalaterre.com
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