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Re: dpms setting does not work for vesa

From: Nigel Henry <cave.dnb(at)tiscali.fr>
Date: Thu Aug 23 2007 - 18:33:46 EDT

On Thursday 23 August 2007 23:46, - Tong - wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:33:55 +0000, - Tong - wrote:
> >> My newly installed xorg doesn't support dpms any more:
> >>
> >> $ xset dpms force off
> >> server does not have extension for dpms option
> >> xset: unknown option force
> >
> > load/enable the following module,
> >
> > "extmod" # some commonly used server extensions (e.g. shape extension)
> >
> > I'm able to use 'xset dpms force off' again.

> But the problem is that none of the dpms setting is working:

> xset dpms force standby
> xset dpms force suspend
> xset dpms force off

> None of the above command has any effect. I'm using the vesa driver. Is
> this a known issue?

>
> thanks

Hi Tong. I used to find that commenting out the dpms line with a # in the monitor section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf worked, but it does not seem to work now.

I use KDE, so what I am using now is a one line script in ~/.kde/autostart.

Name the script whatever you want. I've logically named it "Disable-DPMS". Script is below.

#! /bin/bash

# A little script to disable DPMS at login

xset -dpms

This appears to work ok, and my monitor stays on all the time.

Do you need help?

This is on Etch, and Lenny.

Nigel.

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