Shouldnt be. Most option names are case-insensitive, so I dont think changing it from DPMS to dpms would have any effect. It works here with Option "DPMS", so it may be something else having an effect at the same time.
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 16:22 +0000, 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? > > -- [email protected] mailing list
