On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, George Roberts wrote:
The other day I set out to find a way to turn my monitor off, for when I get distracted while away from my computer.
I followed the instructions at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Automatically_turn_off_your_monitor.
But this was not successful :-( . The monitor stays on.
After google searching and coming up with the same information as in the Howto, I was about to give it up as a no go. Then I noticed in the article that in the xorg.conf portion the commands are:
File: /etc/X11/XF86Config
Section "Monitor" ... Option "DPMS"
...
Section "ServerLayout" ... Option "OffTime" "20"
But the command to turn off the monitor in the testing portion is "/usr/X11R6/bin/xset dpms force off", (which does work).
I decided to change the command in xorg.conf from Option "DPMS" to Option "dpms", success the monitor now turns off :-) . My question is: is this typical?
Typical or no, I think there are some slight differences between xfree86's config file and xorg's file; for example the "InputDevice" section, driver "kbd" is called "Keyboard" in XF86config...
Best regards
Peter K
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