Turning off LCD?

ch_bock · n00b Joined: 22 May 2003 Posts: 33

I finally got me a LCD, but now the KDE Power Management (EnergyStar or whatsoever) does not completely tirn it off... it only gets blanked. Any Ideas? My old crt was plugged through vga, this one via DVI...

thanx in advance.

provicemo · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:43 am Post subject:

Is dpms enabled in your xorg.conf?

mhill · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 4:25 am Post subject:

I've had the same problem since migrating two of my systems to Gentoo. :^( Both would switch the (monitor|builtin LCD) to power-saving mode under Mandrake, so the hardware is definitely capable....

Neither my xorg.conf nor my old XFree86-4 have any mention of dmps. Where is documentation on how to correctly configure that?
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provicemo · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 4:46 am Post subject:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Automatically_turn_off_your_monitor

mhill · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 5:18 am Post subject:

Hmmmm... cool, if you're on 2.6 you don't need to emerge acpid. I see I have a [kacpid] process running, and /proc/acpi/info returns the version. So far, so good.

But when I try the xset command for an immediate test, it does the same, both on my laptop and my desktop with external LCD: They go blank, but the backlight is still on and the monitor is not in power-saving mode. I note that the instructions on the Wiki page are for XFree86, not Xorg; not sure if they would be compatible with Xorg's config. Even if they are, it appears from the xset that something still isn't working quite right.
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