Despite having configured DPMS according to all the docs I could find,
whilst my laptop screen will blank after a while the backlight never
switches off. Any suggestions?
Laptop: Dell Inspiron 8200
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go
Kernel and driver details:
$ uname -r
2.6.13-1.1532_FC4
$ rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia | sort
kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4-1.0.7676-0.lvn.2.4
nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-0.lvn.3.4
Xorg log says DPMS is loaded and enabled:
$ sudo grep -i dpms /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(**) Option "dpms" "true"
(**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
And xset seems to confirm that DPMS is enabled and the times for
standby, suspend, and off set in xscreensaver are picked up:
$ xset -q
[snip]
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1800 Suspend: 2700 Off: 3600
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
[snip]
Also,
$ sudo xset dpms force [standby|suspend|off]
doesn't work either.
This *used* to work a couple of Fedora Cores and NVIDIA drivers ago.
However, I cannot remember when it stopped working (although it was a
while ago). I've been searching on the NVIDIA forums and through the
NVIDIA readme, and I can't seem to find anything. It'd be nice to get
this working again --- I often leave my laptop on overnight and I'm
beginning to get afraid that the screen will burn out at this rate.
Best, Darren
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