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PostPosted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 10:20 am    Post subject: Monitors and sleep mode... ZzZzZz... (DPMS) Reply with quote

Ok, I've turned on the DPMS features in both KDE's screensaver (a while back) and most recently XScreensaver. I set then to TOTALLY powerdown my monitor in 20 minutes. Yet all I get is a blank screen with the power still fully on. Is there some extra thing I need to do or something extra to compile into my kernel to get this to work properly? I recall it working on long gone Linux installs in my past... :(
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 10:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think you need to add 'Option "DPMS" "true"' to the monitor section of your XF86Config, though I don't use this feature myself, so I'm not sure.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 11:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks! It was in the XF86Config man file so I turned it on. I'll let you know.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 3:24 pm    Post subject: console blanking Reply with quote

Is there any way to get DPMS to work when in console mode?

I am working on a laptop. Is there something I should read about how
to get other basic sleep modes too (disk, cpu-suspend...)
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 8:42 pm    Post subject: Re: console blanking Reply with quote

CaveMole wrote:
Is there any way to get DPMS to work when in console mode?

Good question. I know on Redhat installs in the past it would let me select a screensaver for the console (one of which was simply DPMS power off). Anyone know what I'm talking about and how to get this setup under Gentoo?
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 14, 2002 5:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

for console, try something like
Code:
setterm -powerdown 15
to put it in standby mode after 15 minutes.
Code:
man setterm
will have more information, but I've done it before so I know it's possible. Add the command to /etc/conf.d/local.start to have it affect all future sessions.
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