Hello. I'm having a strange problem with X 4.0.2 (woody) and my Energy
Star compliant Sony monitor. I've configured X to use DPMS to turn off
the monitor after 10 minutes of inactivity with the following line in
XF86Config-4:
Option "DPMS"
Option "OffTime" "10"After the specified period of inactivity, the monitor appears to turn itself off, but things get a bit weird. After some time (a minute or two) the monitor clicks as if waking up, and the power indicator switches from solid orange to flashing orange/green. Logging in to the system from another machine and using xset to get the status of the monitor (yes, I'm talking to the right X server ;^) indicates that DPMS is disabled. Huh? It was enabled before! using 'xset dpms 0 0 600' or 'xset dpms force off' turns it off for a little while, but then it reverts to its weird behavior again. Until today I had power saving enabled in the system BIOS, but in an attempt to isolate the problem I turned it off. The symptoms remain unchanged, though. Has anybody else seen such a thing? I don't remember it happening with X3 under potato, but it's possible that I wasn't looking when it did. Thanks. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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