Hi, I've got an incredibly annoying problem with X11 and DPMS. When I set the DPMS mode to off, instead of actually doing that and turning my monitor off, it continuously toggles between powersave and poweron. I can hear my monitor turning itself on then off then on again then off again at *irregular* intervals of less than about a second each. If I leave it that way then a while later it seems to have settled down and it stays constantly off. (I have a DPMS off timeout of about 10 minutes.) Although sometimes I'm lucky and it does turn off straight away.
I noticed under KDE that if I had a shortcut key assigned to run "xset dpms force off" then it would exhibit this problem every time, but if I manually typed that same command in a terminal window it would work properly almost every time. I now use Gnome but either way seems to cause the undesired behaviour. But then I have another problem, in that the monitor will spontaneously turn itself back on again, usually sometime in the early hours of the morning which can be quite frustrating. Sometimes I've gotten up when it's done this and tried to run "xset dpms force off" to turn it off again, but the screen just blanks for a fraction of a second and then turns comes back again, refusing to turn off. The last time this happened xset refused to turn it off, but focusing another window, refocusing the terminal window and running xset again worked. Does anyone know why this happens? It's extremely irritating. I'm running XFree86 4.3.0 with nVidia's closed source driver, but I also experienced the problem with my old version of XFree86 (4.2.1?) which was the main reason why I upgraded. I've also experienced the problem on an older version of nVidia's driver. I don't know much about the DPMS implementation so I don't know if it is the driver at fault or XFree86. If you can give me any help at all with this problem, I would really appreciate it! Thanks, Adam. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
