Cancel my last. Adding Option "DPMS" to my monitor in xorg did the trick. Section "Monitor" identifier "L1910S" Option "DPMS" ...
It seems that xorg and kde are not fully synced with their settings. The same thing happened, for example, when i wanted to switch keyboard maps between english and hebrew with alt-shift etc... In xorg.conf it works but in KDE regional settings the switching groups did not. Annoying. Thanks for the help! On Sunday 04 February 2007 11:09, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > The problem is not to turn the screen blank but to get it > to go to standby (powersave). > I tried: > xset +dpms > xset dpms force off > xset dpms force standby > xset dpms force suspend > > and they only blank the screen. > This is why i think acpi/apm are required to enable the lcd screen LG > flatron l1910s to enter powersaving mode instead of just making the screen > black. > > On Sunday 04 February 2007 08:17, Oren Held wrote: > > I hope I'm not mistaken, but I think you don't need acpi/apm support for > > power save modes of monitors. > > Try "xset dpms force off" in X, and see if it works. > > > > xset +dpms should turn on dpms support for current X session. > > Enabling dpms & setting timeouts can be done either from xorg.conf > > (search for 'offtime' option) or from kde/gnome gui configuration tools. > > > > Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > > Hi, > > > A while ago i had a system crash and i had to reinstall kubuntu from > > > scratch. The powersave before worked and it also work now in windows. > > > However, i can't seem to get it to work on the new installation. > > > both acpid and apmd do not work. > > > sudo acpid start > > > acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: Device or resource busy > > > sudo apmd start > > > No APM support in kernel > > > > > > I have kubuntu edgy updated. > > > Bios have apm enabled. > > > > > > I also tried in the boot process to add acpi=force apm=off. > > > and acpi=off apm=force, though this method did not load the kernel. > > > > > > I also tried installing powersaved. > > > > > > What else can i do? > > > 10x. > > > > > > p.s.: i started with dapper and upgraded to edgy with adept. > > > and the kernel is > > > Linux Linux 2.6.17-10-386 #2 Tue Dec 5 22:26:18 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux -- Regards, Tzahi. -- Tzahi Fadida Blog: http://tzahi.blogsite.org | Home Site: http://tzahi.webhop.info WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
