On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 09:25:51AM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: > I've got FC2 on a Dell D400 laptop, and have set the screen saver > to blank screen only; and although the screen goes blank, the > LCD backlight remains on. I can manuallly turn the light off with > > xset dpms force off > > Is there any way I can get this to happen automatically? Make sure in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf you have a line in your 'Section "Monitor"' area that reads 'Option "dpms"' Try that out.. -r -- Rodney "meff" Gordon II -+- meff <at> pobox <dot> com