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dreamer3 Guru
Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 553
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Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 10:20 am Post subject: Monitors and sleep mode... ZzZzZz... (DPMS) |
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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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kybber Apprentice
Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 228 Location: Trondheim, Norway
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Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 10:47 am Post subject: |
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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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dreamer3 Guru
Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 553
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Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 11:28 am Post subject: |
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Thanks! It was in the XF86Config man file so I turned it on. I'll let you know. |
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CaveMole n00b
Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 18 Location: Albuquerque, NM, USA
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 3:24 pm Post subject: console blanking |
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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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dreamer3 Guru
Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 553
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 8:42 pm Post subject: Re: console blanking |
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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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nitro322 Guru
Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 594 Location: USA
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Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2002 5:19 am Post subject: |
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for console, try something like Code: | setterm -powerdown 15 | to put it in standby mode after 15 minutes. 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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