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asiddens
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 Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:26 pm Post subject: APM - advanced power management |
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| I'm trying to get advanced power management to work on my computer. I want my monitor to automatically go into sleep mode after a certain time of inactivity. I use xscreensaver and have tried setting the power management settings there, but all it does is display a black screen. But the LCD's backlight stays on and it doesn't go into sleep mode. I've compiled support for APM and ACPI into my kernel. I noticed that with Knoppix/Xfld it works like it should, so I know it's possible. When booting up Xfld I noticed it said something about apmd, so I went and emerged apmd and added it to rc-update default (it wouldn't let me just start the service manually for some reason, so I added it to rc-update default and rebooted and that got it going). However it still doesn't work. Does anyone know how to make it work? |
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dgaffuri
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 10:36 pm Post subject: Re: APM - advanced power management |
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| asiddens wrote: | | I've compiled support for APM and ACPI into my kernel. |
AFAIK you should use only one of the two. If your system supports ACPI use that. Try to add
| Code: | Section "ServerLayout"
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Option "OffTime" "20"
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Section "Monitor"
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Option "DPMS"
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to your X conf file.
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