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hulk2nd Guru
Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 512 Location: Freiburg, Germany
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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 7:03 am Post subject: |
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hah, found the solution immediatly after my first post. just leave the display thing away (who needs it anyway )
so for example Code: | /usr/X11R6/bin/xset dpms 600 0 0 |
cool!
greats,
hulk |
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Doxer n00b
Joined: 12 Nov 2003 Posts: 43 Location: Bremen-Nord, Germany
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 1:28 am Post subject: |
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It's possible to deactivate the mouse for switching on the monitor?
So every little move of the mouse turns my TFT on. |
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irf2003 Veteran
Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 1078
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Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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acpid is not needed with the 2.6 kernels
HTH |
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plasmatic n00b
Joined: 12 Sep 2002 Posts: 2 Location: near Cologne
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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Many thanks to you and the great Gentoo community! To almost all problems I have found a solution here.
It worked out for a iiyama AU5131DT
Greetings from Cologne/Germany
Norman |
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DeathAndTaxes Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 124
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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irf2003 wrote: | acpid is not needed with the 2.6 kernels
HTH |
When I stop acpid, 'xset dpms force standby' and suspend have no effect, whereas with acpid running, they turn my monitors off.
xset dpms force off has the effect of the screens coming back on after a couple of seconds.
I run a gf4600 dual head, and only my first monitor goes off. I'm using the TwinView method for running dualie screens.
Any thoughts on clearing up any of these issues? |
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evoweiss Veteran
Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Posts: 1678 Location: Edinburgh, UK
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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Hi all,
Just a quick note on something to keep an eye out for with ACPI.
If you don't exit out of some programs correctly (mplayer being a biggy), ACPI won't be able to shut down the monitor as, I believe, mplayer suspends the operation of ACPI. I've noticed advmame will do this as well.
If you find that ACPI has stopped working, just restart X and it should work again.
Best,
Alex |
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daymon n00b
Joined: 10 Jun 2004 Posts: 2 Location: Stockholm / Sweden
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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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mabe itś time to upgrade my computer ?
I was looking forward to be able to suspend my monitor
ACPI disabled because your bios is from 99 and too old
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: Interpreter disabled. |
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GMFTatsujin Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 104
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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 6:10 pm Post subject: How useful! |
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I followed this to the letter and it worked the first time! Whahoo, Gentoo forums!
Here's a question tho. I have a dualhead monitor setup with one big desktop stretching across two monitors. In the step involving xset dpms force off, only the first monitor shuts down, even though I put the Option "DPMS" in both monitor sections of XF86Config. I haven't left my computer alone for 20 minutes or restarted X, so that may fix it right off, but are there ideas about this? |
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scaba Apprentice
Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 252 Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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Biker wrote: | Furthermore, I've noticed that logged in as an ordinary user under Gnome, it is possible to execute Code: | xset dpms force off | in xterm.
The monitor does turn off. But it automagically goes on again after about two seconds...
I can repeat this as much as I want (even though I don't want it as any ordinary user in this system.
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when i do 'xset dpms force off' as a regular user, the backlight is switched off, but after 1sec the monitor is back to normal.
when i use the same command as root, it only blanks the screen, but doesn't turn it off. when i touch the mouse the backlight is switched off but comes on again right after that (returning to normal mode).
'standby' and 'suspend' only blank the screen. only 'off' actually turns the backlight off on my machine. _________________ Out of silence, a story. Out of chaos, order. Out of nothingness, love...
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locke2053 n00b
Joined: 29 May 2003 Posts: 58 Location: Ohio State University
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Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 1:12 am Post subject: |
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Maybe you have some program like KDE trying to control DPMS on its own and it is interfering? What if you just start X with like twm or something? |
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Apocalypse n00b
Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 53
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Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 3:51 am Post subject: |
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DeathAndTaxes wrote: | irf2003 wrote: | acpid is not needed with the 2.6 kernels
HTH |
When I stop acpid, 'xset dpms force standby' and suspend have no effect, whereas with acpid running, they turn my monitors off.
xset dpms force off has the effect of the screens coming back on after a couple of seconds.
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I confirm this, when you don't have acpid with the 2.6 kernel the monitor doesn't turn off and xset dpms force standby doesn't really work. I'm getting another problem too. Though I'm afraid it's my ghetto 2mb trident card When I come back and turn my monitor back on by moving my mouse or keyboard, I get this: http://www.uranther.com/ghetto_video_card.png
It goes away if I open a program or basically move anything on the screen. I fix it by fullscreening Opera =/ Still annoying though. _________________ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge windows-xp |
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BlindSpy Apprentice
Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 263
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Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 4:41 am Post subject: |
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Awesome guide! I was just wondering how I could do this! _________________ Symlinks to:
xorg.conf |
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scaba Apprentice
Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 252 Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 9:56 am Post subject: |
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locke2053 wrote: | Maybe you have some program like KDE trying to control DPMS on its own and it is interfering? What if you just start X with like twm or something? |
same behavior using twm :/
xorg.conf
Code: | Section "ServerLayout"
[...]
Option "OffTime" "5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
Option "DPMS" "true"
[...]
EndSection
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Xorg.0.log
Code: | (**) Option "dpms" "true"
(**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled |
# xset -q
Code: | DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 300
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On |
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frameRATE Guru
Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 386 Location: Orange County California
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wpoely86 n00b
Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 59 Location: Belgium
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Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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Does anyone know how to turn off or blank your screen under console ?
It must be possible but i can't find it. |
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Insanity5902 Veteran
Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 1228 Location: Fort Worth, Texas
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Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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Apocalypse wrote: | DeathAndTaxes wrote: | irf2003 wrote: | acpid is not needed with the 2.6 kernels
HTH |
When I stop acpid, 'xset dpms force standby' and suspend have no effect, whereas with acpid running, they turn my monitors off.
xset dpms force off has the effect of the screens coming back on after a couple of seconds.
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I confirm this, when you don't have acpid with the 2.6 kernel the monitor doesn't turn off and xset dpms force standby doesn't really work. I'm getting another problem too. Though I'm afraid it's my ghetto 2mb trident card When I come back and turn my monitor back on by moving my mouse or keyboard, I get this: http://www.uranther.com/ghetto_video_card.png
It goes away if I open a program or basically move anything on the screen. I fix it by fullscreening Opera =/ Still annoying though. |
I use all these commands w/out acpi being emerged or in the kernel. I have tried it on my 2.6.8.1, but worked with 2.6.4 _________________ Join the adopt an unanswered post initiative today |
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sameerd n00b
Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 5
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Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 2:53 am Post subject: |
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I have a desktop machine and I didnt know how to get the montor to turn off. However the information about the DPMS options in the config file were a great help. I did not need ACPI or acpid. (just in case acpi does not run on your machine) |
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frameRATE Guru
Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 386 Location: Orange County California
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Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 3:04 am Post subject: |
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wpoely86 wrote: | Does anyone know how to turn off or blank your screen under console ?
It must be possible but i can't find it. |
if you're in x you can do Code: | xset dpms force standby |
or change standby with suspend...
Hope that helps. _________________
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wpoely86 n00b
Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 59 Location: Belgium
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Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 8:37 am Post subject: |
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frameRATE wrote: | wpoely86 wrote: | Does anyone know how to turn off or blank your screen under console ?
It must be possible but i can't find it. |
if you're in x you can do Code: | xset dpms force standby |
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I had already discovered that. Now i'm trying to put my monitor
in standby under a virtual console. I found that with
you can blank your screen. With
Code: | setterm -powersave powerdown | you should be able to powerdown your monitor but it doesn't work here. |
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RexM n00b
Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 47 Location: South Jordan, Utah
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Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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I've been wondering how to do this. It hasn't really bothered me too much that my monitor stays on, but I guess I'll look into doing this when I get home. Just got bored here at school and decided to check out the Gentoo Forums, like I always do when I get bored at school. |
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RexM n00b
Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 47 Location: South Jordan, Utah
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Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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I did this and it was working perfectly, when all of a sudden my monitor started spazzing out last night. The green light would go off, then come back on, then go off, then go back on, then go off... etc. finally i just hit the button to shutoff power to it, lol. Any ideas? |
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wpoely86 n00b
Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 59 Location: Belgium
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Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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RexM wrote: | I did this and it was working perfectly, when all of a sudden my monitor started spazzing out last night. The green light would go off, then come back on, then go off, then go back on, then go off... etc. finally i just hit the button to shutoff power to it, lol. Any ideas? |
What kind of monitor ?
Are you using a framebuffer ? On which resolution and wich one ? _________________ If something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then
it's probably not worth knowing anyway. -- Calvin |
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tkoster n00b
Joined: 26 May 2003 Posts: 46
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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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For those struggling with turning the screen off with gnome, xscreensaver has the power management turned off as the default. To turn it on, go to:
start here--> Desktop Preferences -->Advanced --> Screensaver -->Advanced -->Display Power Management
In that menu you can both enable the powermanagement and tell it when to kick in. |
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wpoely86 n00b
Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 59 Location: Belgium
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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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tkoster wrote: | For those struggling with turning the screen off with gnome, xscreensaver has the power management turned off as the default. To turn it on, go to:
start here--> Desktop Preferences -->Advanced --> Screensaver -->Advanced -->Display Power Management
In that menu you can both enable the powermanagement and tell it when to kick in. |
Actually, we were trying to turn off your monitor from a virtual
console. For those of you who have an ATI card can use:
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l0calh05t n00b
Joined: 15 Sep 2004 Posts: 5
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 11:23 am Post subject: |
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I have a thinkpad R51 and xset dpms force off only blanks my screen (backlight stays on), so i can only switch it off by closing the lid or by switching to the vga output. Does anybody know how to turn it off?? (automatically and with Fn+F3)
EDIT: I just upgraded to a newer version f x.org, now i can't switch back and forth between lcd and vga because it leaves me with tons of graphical errors. (some random stuff at the top of the screen and the image is shifted downwards)
If it is of any help, my laptop has an intel graphics chip
EDIT2: I also tried ibm-acpi and tpctl to control the backlight. It worked a few times with tpctl but after a reboot it quit working. It didn't work at all with ibm-acpi (neither with 0.3 nor with 0.4). And since trying this my monitor/graphicscard/bios behaves very strangely when booting, it automatically switch to 1024x768 mode as a standard system resolution but only a 640x480 part at the center of the screen is used (even when going into the BIOS setup). |
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