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elias4444
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 Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 4:01 am Post subject: DPMS not working |
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| Ok, this is just strange: if I run "xset dpms force standby" my monitor goes into DPMS standby no problem. However, I set the DPMS option with "StandbyTime" in my xorg.conf file and it never goes off (doesn't do a thing). XScreensaver works, and even puts the monitor into standby mode, except that it does it even when I'm in the middle of using an application in Gnome. I'm running everything in the stable branch (Gnome and Xorg). If anyone has an idea, please let me know. |
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elias4444
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| Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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shameless bump... 
Honestly, I've searched these forums, and tried several different solutions, but none of them worked. Should I leave the stable branch and go to "testing" instead? That would give me the newest version of xorg anyway. |
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elias4444
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| Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Alright, I've pounded and pounded this issue. I finally gave in and decided to start installing a few "unstable" packages from the"~x86" arch. Primarily, I re-emerged xscreensaver (to version 4.16 currently in the unstable arch), and that, thus far, seems to have solved the issue. I still don't understand why the DPMS settings (standbytime and suspendtime) don't work in the xorg.conf file, but for the meantime, it looks like I'm fixed. Hopefully this information will help anyone else having this issue. |
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catkfr
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| Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| I had some issues with DPMS in gnome: I couldn't get xscreensaver to use DPMS correctly (backlight would stay on). I played around with the xorg.conf file for a while before finding out that whatever is in it, xscreensaver will overwrite the DPMS settings with its own. In the end, I gave up on screensavers: disabled xscreensaver, and let my xorg.conf settings take care of the rest and it works fine for me. |
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elias4444
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| Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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| The strangest thing for me was that no matter what I put in the xorg.conf file, it wouldn't work. It could use xset and it would work just fine, but never from the file. I also tried completely removing xscreensaver, and that didn't make any difference. Luckily, since I emerged the unstable xscreensaver package, everything has worked fine. I'm still crossing my fingers though, wondering if the issue will ever come back. |
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Ssl
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| Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
Exactly what is happening to me. With xscreensaver installed it works fine as with command | Code: | | xset dpms force standby |
but no luck with xorg.conf:
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Section "ServerFlags"
Option "blank time" "10"
Option "standby time" "60"
Option "suspend time" "90"
Option "off time" "120"
EndSection |
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catkfr
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| Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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My xorg.conf is not setup exactly this way and works for me (again not using xscreensaver). Here's how my xorg.conf is setup for DPMS to work: | Code: | Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "simple layout"
Screen "Screen1"
InputDevice "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Touchpad" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "StandbyTime" "600"
Option "SuspendTime" "600"
Option "OffTime" "10"
EndSection
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I decided that I didn't need the other settings (standby and suspend) and just turn my screen off and it works great for me. |
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