On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:22:29PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > 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.
Yea, think this is something with the X screensaver. X screensaver probably kicks on at 10 minutes, and doesn't go to Standby 'til 30 minutes. Seems the two need to get in sync... I turned DPMS off in XF86Config and all is well... -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
