Screen Goes Dark but Monitor Still On

Minot

I switched kernels from 2.6.9-r14 to 2.6.11-r2 to support the latest ATI fglrx driver and I noticed a difference in my monitor power save. The monitor no longer turns off. Instead, it just goes dark. I can see that the monitor is still on however. What setting in xorg.conf would control this? DPMS is "on". Is there any other setting?

I'd post the xorg.conf, but the system is currently compiling kdebase. I'm hoping this is a common issue and someone can point me in the right direction.

Also, I don't think it matters (hence the reason I put this in the general desktop forum) but the system is AMD64.

Thanks for your help!

-MINOT-

donjuan · l33t Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 760 Location: At Uni

Won't tell you to search before you post because this was hella hard to find

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-201067.html
hope it helps.
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Minot · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:31 am Post subject:

Thanks. I actually found that one before I posted, but it didn't help me as I already had DPMS set properly. In the end, it seems not to matter. Now that I am running in KDE the monitor shuts off fine. I wonder why it worked in the non-GUI Linux environment using one kernel and not another. My .config files were nearly identical. Thanks again for the reply.

-MINOT-