On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 03:32:03PM +0000, Alex Scotton wrote:
SOLVED!!!!!!!!! Thanks to Jan T Kim (much thanks)
I think the standby, suspend and off values should be non-zero, the xset man page says that "a value of zero disables a particular mode", so all modes seem disabled here. So ``xset dpms 10 20 30'' might be worth trying (well, for testing, you'll want longer times in the long run).
Ok, these values are seconds right?..
yes, indeed.
because i just unticked that Activate screensaver tick, and the monitor is turning off very quickly hehe.. Ok so after realising what you had asked me to do, i started debugging, and i beleive if this sounds likely that the flikering off and on begins in the 2nd stage of suspend, after setting dpms to 10 20 30, 10 30 60, 10 60 120, and recognising it was doing it after the 2nd alloted amount of seconds.... so I have now set to 60 0 0 and there are no problems whatsoever...
It generally seems that the settings of your X server (which you control using xset) and the ideas that your screensaver has about these settings are not quite consistent. Personally I use xscreensaver and I've never seen such phenomena so far, as far as I can tell xscreensaver just displays its fancy animations and does not interfere with the DPMS stuff. Perhaps the gnome screensaver is different.
Regards this "xset" is it launched the same time the screensaver is??
This again depends on the window manager or desktop you use. The initial values for standby, suspend, and switch off time come from the xorg.conf file (options StandbyTime, SuspendTime and "OffTime, respectively), xset is just a program to change these parameters on a running X server.
So could I see it to DPMS 60 0 0 and then to turn screensaver on after 10mintues will it be 11minutes and then the screen will go into standby?? or should i set it to 660 0 0?
It all depends what you want. If you switch to standby before the screensaver kicks in, you'll never get to see the screensaver's fancy animations. If you use the screen saver for locking the screen, rather than just "saving" it, locking the X screen after putting the LC display on standby may make sense, though.
Notice that with the "660 0 0" you'll never get the suspend or off modes. I don't know whether that's a problem, but just to test whether off mode works for you and it's really just the suspend mode that ends up in flicker, I'd try ``xset 60 0 60''.
Best regards, Jan