Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > wrt dpms: > Until you get a more knowledgable reply, man xset (especially, the 's' > option) and man xscreensaver-command (-time) may help.
Many thanks. I will read up on these right now. > I use the nv driver, but have a crt. I have gotten to thinking. Does nv take any flags like nvidia does? Could there be a setting I could manipulate when loading it which could help with LCD monitors, or the like? I must admit complete ignorance on this issue, as when I used nv consistently I had a very simple setup with a CRT as well. I never needed to do anything but load the driver for it to work. > Sometimes, mplayer or another player disables the screen saver and > forgets to re-enable it, which is annoying. That accounts for failure > to engage dpms actions for me for those cases. I had not thought of this. I have noticed that at times mplayer will disable dpms and never reset it, apparently. In most cases though it only seems to turn off dpms during play, but perhaps if it dies for some reason...? I have also noticed that avidemux2 kills all dpms and does not restart it. I very, very rarely use that though, and not nearly as often as the problem has appeared. But, it very well could be some other application I am not thinking of which I use just often enough to be causing a problem. Perhaps next time I notice the monitor refusing to sleep I will try 'xset q' and just see if dpms has been disabled. I can't remember if I did that before, but it may be informative. > > fwiw, I have no Section "ServerFlags" in my xorg.conf on this etch box. > There are no log entries indicating screen saver or dpms actions or > settings. But, do you have dpms on? If so how does it know when to set standby and so on? Or do you use xscreensaver or the like? Do you think removing the ServerFlags section and then using only xscreensaver may have an impact? I may try that. > > Good luck! > > Ralph Katz Many thanks Ralph. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
