On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Don wrote:

> > No alternative.
> > DPMS works on DVI on my Matrox G550.
> > BY default DPMS is not enabled, to turn it on I put
> >     Option "DPMS"
> > in the monitor section of the config file, but it can also go in some
> > other sections (flags ?).
> > If it still isn't working, your driver has a bug or a misfeature.
> DPMS does not work for me with my DVI outputs either.
> 
> I have finally gotten my G450 PCI and G550 AGP cards all plaing nicely
> with my monitors using DVI.
> 
> Any time they get kicked into powersave the screens simply display what
> looks a lot like a snowcrash :) Moving the mouse or pressing a
> key immediately retores the display.
> 
> This is with FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE with XFree86 4.2.1 compiled from source
> via the ports tree and with the Matrox drivers compiled from source.

I'm using latest CVS, if that makes a difference.

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison         Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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