DPMS not working

pbardet · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 11:15 pm Post subject: DPMS not working

Since I switched to gentoo (mdk before), I've never been able to get display power management to work. The display stays on all the time, whether I use screen saver or not.

I currently use KDE 3.2.0 with kernel 2.6.3-gentoo-r1, but it was the same with kernel 2.4.20, 2.4.22 and kd1 3.1.4 or 3.1.5
I specifically compiled ACPI source code in my current kernel, even though I believe it's useful for laptops only. Is there any other option I should enable in the kernel ?
Here is the result of xset q (DPMS section)

dippen · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Sep 2002 Posts: 83

works here..
did you put the dpms option in /etc/X11/XF86Config as shown below?

raylpc · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 2:04 am Post subject:

hotpotato · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Jul 2002 Posts: 81

I'm not sure if it's necessary but I also emerged acpid... It seems to work for me?!

Ciao,
HotPotato

pbardet · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:49 pm Post subject:

Thanks dippen, the option did the trick. Works like a charm now.
It took me a while to decide to reboot my machine since I could not figure a way to restart kdm to see if it worked. Another problem, for next time...

malone · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 6:14 am Post subject:

Thanks dippen, that also did the trick here. Since XFCE4 turned off my monitor without me changing anything, I just figured I had something wrong in my KDE setup. Thanks again.

Cheers.
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malone