On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 05:07:14PM -0800, Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone have any ideas why my DPMS features stopped working > sometime around the time I upgraded to XFree86 4? `xset q' says: > > DPMS (Energy Star): > Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400 > DPMS is Enabled > Monitor is On > > But no matter how long the computer sits idle, DPMS never seems to be > enabled. Also `xset dpms force <state>' doesn't do anything.
No idea. I had the opposite problem. As soon as X's idea of DPMS kicked in it would kill my X session (added an Option "NoPM" "true" to turn it off). My kernel/bios configuration still does blanking and offtime; must be some weird interaction between the two. -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
