On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 10 November 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: >>Greetings all; >> >>I rebuilt 2.6.26 for smp and my new hardware and have rebooted to it. >> >>But the monitor is still sitting in black, not powered down, the next >> morning. This did work well when the box was an xp2800 and the card was an >> ATI 9200SE AGP version. I was using the radeon driver in my xorg.conf >> then. >> >>Now the box is a 4 core phenom and the card is an HD2400, PCI-E, and I'm >> using the radeonhd driver although the radeon seems usable too although >> slightly slower. >> >>Is this driver difference causing the lack of monitor power control? >>Something that radeonhd does not yet support? >> >>Thanks. > > Never mind, the answer is yes, monitor powerdown works using the radeon > driver, but doesn't using the radeonhd driver. > > But its not that simple either, cuz when running the radeon driver, I get > random screen blanking for 1-10 seconds at a time, and for a change it > doesn't seem to be tied to the time of day since its doing it right now and > it is 10 pm.
you might try enabling (or disabling depending on the version of the driver) coherent mode: xrandr --output <output> --set coherent_mode <0/1> Alex _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
