OK - this "magically" started working again, as it did before I upgraded to Karmic months ago. I'm running 2.6.31-11-generic kernel. That was the only real change I can attribute. After rebooting from updating it started working. I did add this to my Xorg, but it didn't work under the old kernel.
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" Option "BlankTime" "2" Option "StandbyTime" "0" Option "SuspendTime" "0" Option "OffTime" "5" EndSection What I can say definitely is that with an up to date karmic, running the kernel above, the 185.18.36 nvidia drivers, and the xorg options above, everything works as expected! :-) -- 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