On Sunday 17 June 2007 20:40, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 16:39:40 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > I'd commented out the "options DPMS" line in my xorg.conf, so that the > > monitor wouldn't keep going into standby mode every 30mins or so, and up > > to last nights updates, (including a load of X stuff) this had been > > working ok. > > > > This morning after installing all the updates, I rebooted the machine, > > just to make sure everything was still ok with Lenny, and now I find that > > the monitor is again going into standby after some 30mins or so. The > > "options DPMS" line is still commented out, but appears to be being > > ignored. > > > > I read a while back that xorg.conf was being deprecated, and would no > > longer be necessary. If that is so, and these x updates have made that > > change, where do I go now to stop DPMS being used. > > > > Thanks in advance for any pointers toward the file I need to look at. > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf is not depreciated yet. If I understand you > correctly, you had the DPMS line simply commented out in the past. This > means that you get the default behavior, which can change with an > upgrade. Try to turn DPMS off explicitly by using > > Option "DPMS" "false" > > in the monitor section of your xorg.conf. > > If this does not have the desired effect then you should post the output > of: > > grep -i dpms /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > -- > Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer > Florian |
No go with setting DPMS to false. 20mins later after restarting X the monitor goes into standby. It's a bit annoying as yesterday before these X updates I had no problem, and with just commenting out the "options DPMS" line, the monitor would not go into standby mode. Anyway, this is all I get from grep. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -i dpms /var/log/Xorg.0.log (II) Loading extension DPMS (**) Option "dpms" "false" (**) TRIDENT(0): DPMS enabled Trident is the driver for the Cyberbladei1 onboard graphics card A bit annoying, and I'd like to resolve it. There's nothing more annoying than reading some document, and then the screen goes black. Any suggestions welcome. Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
