-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/27/2009 02:09 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > > > Steven Stern wrote: >> >> >> I had some time this morning, so after getting everything up2date, I >> tried this: >> >> 1. Rebooted into level3. Sat at the login prompt for about 5 minutes >> and watched my monitor go into standby. Cool. So the system *can* do it. >> >> 2. Logged in and waited a while. Monitor went into standby again. So, >> it's not a matter of being logged in. >> >> 3. Rebooted into level5. Logged in. Waited 45 minutes. Screen saver >> comes on, then screen goes blank, but the monitor power button is green, >> not yellow. >> >> It appears that either X or gnome-power-manager is just refusing to put >> the monitor into standby. >> >> > > It would be really useful if you said which version of Fedora you are using! > > Anyway if it is F11 there are known issues with X and going into standby and > there is an update that may help you. > If you want to try the update in F11 then as root do: > yum --enablerepo updates-testing update xorg-x11-server-Xorg > > This fixed similar issues that I had using F11 in one machine. Yes, Fedora 11. I'm going to try the "nomodeset" parm first, then I'll try your suggestion. - -- Steve -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqW3KAACgkQeERILVgMyvASCQCeKWGvn/bdn5Ve7wUSd9myZ94D GiMAn3RlM4309dYaUJOBw0tcL16N5wN9 =qJ0q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
