On Dec 14, 2007 11:16 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote:

Another message from the "when did this stop working?" camp:

I've had the following in my /etc/rc.local for a while: setterm -blank 10 setterm -powersave powerdown setterm -powerdown 15

Now what this does is put the monitor into the black-but-still-glowing mode after 10 minutes, then shut it off after 15.

I have no idea when, why, or how, but it stopped working. I use this on 2 machines that don't run X, so using 'xset' is not an option, but I *think* xset works fine.

Does anyone else know much about this? The internet is fairly silent on the topic

I've noticed DPMS to be a bit effed too for the past 4 days. I have DPMS "off" in every possible place in xorg.conf (I can never remember if its "device" "monitor" "screen" or whatever else), and I've also set "xset -dpms". In spite of all this, DPMS is still active, and its really pissing off when watching a movie. Varun

Friday 14 December 2007, Aaron Griffin wrote: | I've had the following in my /etc/rc.local for a while: |    setterm -blank 10 |    setterm -powersave powerdown |    setterm -powerdown 15 | | Now what this does is put the monitor into the | black-but-still-glowing mode after 10 minutes, then shut it off | after 15. | | I have no idea when, why, or how, but it stopped working. | I use this on 2 machines that don't run X, so using 'xset' is not | an option, but I *think* xset works fine. i'm using only setterm -powerdown 5 and it works fine (x86_64). maybe it depends on the hardware? i will see if it still works on i686 and report back. maybe its arch specific break. - D -- .·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´ ° ° ° ° ° ° ><((((º> ° ° ° ° ° <º)))>< <º)))><

On Dec 15, 2007 3:25 PM, Jeff Mickey wrote:

These commands are all working fine for me. I haven't tried the setterm stuff, but xset is working here fine on my laptop.

As I said. Doing this in X has never been a problem for me. It is when I am _not_ in X that the monitor does not blank. The commands run fine, but nothing happens. Damir, do you have the 'blank' line (or rather, are you only using the one from /etc/rc.sysinit)? One of the things I wondered about recently is whether these two commands are somehow mutually exclusive - if maybe the screen will not 'powerdown' if it is already 'blank'ed? Do you know anything regarding that?

On Dec 15, 2007 6:45 PM, Damir Perisa wrote:

if you disable dpms, you have to disable screensaver blanking too, if you want to watch a movie.

i'm running the following before watching movies or doing presentations:

xset -dpms xset s off

once finished presenting, the following restores settings:

xset dpms 0 0 600 xset s 300

- D

Ooh I didn't see this one. Will try it out today and tell you how it goes.

I'll make a wiki entry called "Ditching DPMS" or something if this works for me :) Varun

Tuesday 18 December 2007, Aaron Griffin wrote: | Maybe I'll try with the nvidia fb module? Damir, what video | hardware do you have? Intel 965 (x86_64) and ATI Radeon FireGL 7800 (i686) both powerdown fine in terminal as well as in X. - D -- .·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´ ° ° ° ° ° ° ><((((º> ° ° ° ° ° <º)))>< <º)))><