After some googling I found this page: http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/x-screen-blanking.html According to this page "vbetool" seems to be the solution.
Quick description of vbetool: "vbetool uses lrmi in order to run code from the video BIOS. Currently, it is able to alter DPMS states, save/restore video card state, and attempt to initialize the video card from scratch. It exists primarily in order to increase the chances of successfully recovering video state after an ACPI S3 suspend." - http://freshmeat.net/projects/vbetool/ So I tried what it said and used: vbetool dpms off And it Worked :-D !!! Wait a minute not so fast... I can't break out of it :-( The monitors are stuck in standby mode... I tried moving the mouse, slamming my keyboard against my head, ctrl+alt+del... nothing seems to break it out of standby mode. It seems that the GPU's BIOS is stuck in Standby Mode... I had to manually press the reset button on the box to get it to restart. Hmm, off to do some more research. Any idea's out there? -- Dual Monitors won't SLEEP in TwinView mode https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/275308 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
