On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:18 -0500, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> I have a Dell D800 with a GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go. I have DPMS disabled,
> but I decided to try it out. After enabling, I did this:
>
> sudo xset dpms force off
>
> The LCD turned off. I moved the mouse, and it came back on.
Thanks for the info Kanwar, that is interesting to know. That doesn't
work for me.
> I've always used my laptops without DPMS, even though I sometimes leave
> it on over night. In those instances, the screen has blanked, but never
> turned off. I so far haven't experienced any problems, but then again,
> I'm not leaving it on over night as much as you probably are.
>
> Not sure what else to suggest since it worked for me. Maybe Xorg isn't
> configured properly?
Yes, perhaps. How did you configure DPMS? What I have is this in my
xorg.conf:
In the "Monitor" section:
Option "DPMS" "true"
and in the "Device" section:
Option "DPMS"
(This last bit is apparently required by the NVIDIA driver.)
I am still using version 7676 of the NVIDIA driver because I am stuck on
kernel 2.6.13 (Firewire problems with 2.6.14) and Livna aren't building
driver updates for the old kernels. If you are using the latest 8178
driver maybe I should try building an rpm of it for my kernel from
Livna's src rpm and trying again. Are you using 8178?
Thanks,
Darren
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