Re: Monitor doesn't turn go into powersave

2009-12-29 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 28/12/09 20:10, Sam Varshavchik wrote: It's a kernel boot parameter, append it at the end of the kernel line in grub.conf Another thing that I've noticed -- if you have a leftover /etc/X11/xorg.conf from the previous Fedora release, rename xorg.conf and restart, letting X start with a

Re: Monitor doesn't turn go into powersave

2009-12-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Bob Goodwin writes: On 28/12/09 20:10, Sam Varshavchik wrote: It's a kernel boot parameter, append it at the end of the kernel line in grub.conf Another thing that I've noticed -- if you have a leftover /etc/X11/xorg.conf from the previous Fedora release, rename xorg.conf and restart,

Re: Monitor doesn't turn go into powersave

2009-12-29 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 29/12/09 07:14, Sam Varshavchik wrote: You did not specify nomodeset. You specified --nomodeset. Remove the dashes. Ok, I had another go at it, let the computer run that way while I had some breakfast, at least half an hour, but it did not blank the screen. title Omega 12.1 Fedora

Re: Monitor doesn't turn go into powersave

2009-12-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Bob Goodwin writes: On 29/12/09 07:14, Sam Varshavchik wrote: You did not specify nomodeset. You specified --nomodeset. Remove the dashes. Ok, I had another go at it, let the computer run that way while I had some breakfast, at least half an hour, but it did not blank the screen.

Re: Monitor doesn't turn go into powersave

2009-12-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 27/12/09 20:27, Sam Varshavchik wrote: After updating to FC12, the monitor on one of my servers no longer turned off when the console was idle. This wasn't the end of the world, so I didn't give this much importance. This weekend I had some extra time to spare, and I've now determined

Re: Monitor doesn't turn go into powersave

2009-12-28 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Bob Goodwin writes: On 27/12/09 20:27, Sam Varshavchik wrote: After updating to FC12, the monitor on one of my servers no longer turned off when the console was idle. This wasn't the end of the world, so I didn't give this much importance. This weekend I had some extra time to spare, and

Re: Monitor doesn't turn go into powersave

2009-12-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 28/12/09 17:52, Sam Varshavchik wrote: xset dpms force off If running 'xset dpms force off' puts your monitor into powersave mode immediately, and if you boot with 'nomodeset', and that makes powersave work for you again automatically, then you have the same bug. After pondering this,

Re: Monitor doesn't turn go into powersave

2009-12-28 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Bob Goodwin writes: On 28/12/09 17:52, Sam Varshavchik wrote: xset dpms force off If running 'xset dpms force off' puts your monitor into powersave mode immediately, and if you boot with 'nomodeset', and that makes powersave work for you again automatically, then you have the same bug.

Monitor doesn't turn go into powersave

2009-12-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
After updating to FC12, the monitor on one of my servers no longer turned off when the console was idle. This wasn't the end of the world, so I didn't give this much importance. This weekend I had some extra time to spare, and I've now determined that if I boot with nomodeset, the monitor