On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 09:17 +0200, Vincent Lönngren wrote: > Here's a funny thing: when the kernel has APM support, gnome-power-manager > doesn't use dpms to suspend the screen, so > it remains in the ON state. When the kernel doesn't have APM support > everything works as it should. 'xset dpms force > off' turns the screen off regardless of the kernel capabilities.
Can you try running g-p-m in debug mode and see if you get any warnings?
gnome-power-manager --no-daemon --debug
You will probably need to kill the running process first, you could also
try --verbose for extra debugging info.
You can use dbus to access the backlight controls,
dbus-send --session --dest=org.gnome.PowerManager
--type=method_call --print-reply
--reply-timeout=2000 /org/gnome/PowerManager/Backlight
org.gnome.PowerManager.Backlight.SetMode string:off
You could also try "standby", and "suspend" instead of "off".
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