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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
eng
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
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 fo
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: Devic
