Subj : Re: DPMS not working on RH 7 system
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Trent Buck
Date : Sun Dec 19 2004 09:15 am

Up spake Victor S. Miller:
> I'm running RH 7 (no snide remarks please) on an old Dell machine.
> The display has dpms capabilities, and the apmd is running.  I can put
> it in standby manually by telneting to the machine and runnning
> 
> apm -s
> 
> as root.  I have the right options in XF86Config-4 (and the log shows
> it).  Yet when I run xset dpms 300 600 900 (for example), the display
> never goes into power saving mode.  Any suggestions?

Can you sleep the display immediately using xset?

  xset +dpms
  xset dpms force standby

Note that sleeping the machine with `apm -s' doesn't ask the display to
sleep (like DPMS does); the display is sleeping because it is not
receiving signal from the machine.

-- 
-trent
<foo>I swear, eighty-five percent of the CS community 
<foo>failed remedial English in 3rd grade.
<bar>Eighty-five percent of the CS community hasn't reached 3rd grade.

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