On Tuesday 12 October 2004 19:52, adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
You can then try the commands
xset dpms force off xset dpms force suspend xset dpms force standby xset dpms force on
and see what happens, If they don't work for various types of power management then I don't think KDE has a chance. If they do work for you and not in KDE then I guess that you will need to start looking at KDE as the possible culprit but if not then it could be you have a video card/monitor combination that doesn't want to do power saving, and to be fair I have never had much success trying this with machines running Windows or Linux so I tend to just use the power switch ;) The best always seems to be /very/ nearly off but there is still a very faint glow from the screen.
Adam
The "Option DPMS" is present, and each of the above commands (apart from the last) gives the "nearly off" state, which I think KDE is also invoking. I wonder: is the backlight still blasting away behind all those opaque pixels?
I've never got this computer (an Athlon 2800+ on Epox 8KRA2) to do power management, either before or after fitting a new graphics card (nVidia FX5200) and monitor (Samsung SyncMaster 213T). (Plug: A stunning 21.3" DVI LCD panel. Anyone after a Christmas treat for themselves should take a gander at this beast. Not a single dead pixel in the whole 1600x1200.)
Other computers, my old Dell laptop, for example, do behave as wanted. But for this one it looks like the power switch remains the only option.
-- GT