On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 11:05, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 17:44, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > > > When DPMS is used by X, there seems to be an unique level which is > > "black screen". If I try xset dpms force off, the screen just goes > > black and doesn't power off. Is there something to tweak to allow X to > > power off the screen after x minutes ? Or some utility which can power > > off the screen from command line ? > > X doesn't do power management with flat panels by default. > http://www.penguinppc.org/~daenzer/XFree86-4.2/patches/ati-dpms.diff is > a patch to remedy that when Option "UseFBDev" is used (which is > recommended anyway). It's applied in my 4.2 binaries at > http://www.penguinppc.org/~daenzer/XFree86-4.2/ .
Another option that I use to manually turn of the display is this: $ /sbin/fblevel off; read -p "Hit enter"; /sbin/fblevel on I run that in a terminal (In sawfish I had M-F1 bound to exec: /sbin/fblevel off and M-F2 bound to exec: /sbin/fblevel on) -- David Stanaway
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