Re: power save and XFree86-4

Subject: Re: power save and XFree86-4
From: Ken Schweigert (ken@byte-productions.com)
Date: Mon Oct 08 2001 - 08:30:35 MDT

Alexander,

Check your XF86Config file for:

Option "BlankTime" "time"
Option "StandbyTime" "time"
Option "SuspendTime" "time"
Option "OffTime" "time"
 
And also check for DPMS under the Monitor section.

Also check 'man XF86Config' for more options.

HTH 

-- 
-Ken Schweigert, Aspiring Network Administrator
Byte Productions, LLC
http://www.byte-productions.com

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 03:48:43PM +0200, Alexander Holst wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I have some machines running YDL2.0 by now, but one refuses to set the
> monitor in energy savings mode, my Performa 5200.
> 
> It did work fine when the machine was running under LPPC2kQ4 [I guess it
> was Xpmac as X server], now it only dimms the screen, but the monitor
> somehow does not shut off [the screen comes up immediately upon moving the
> mouse ...]. Sometimes the screensaver never goes off, even with checked
> "Use power management" in the GNOME screensaver settings.
> 
> Is it a kernel issue, that has to be specified when compiling, or is it
> some additional configs in XF86config-4?
> 
> System:
> Performa 5200/75/CD
> YDL2.0 Home/Office install running GNOME as desktop
> 
> kernel:
> vmlinux-20010619.gz [2.4.6] from http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net
> 
> bootloader:
> miboot [this is a Linux only machine]
> 
> 
> Any help appreciated [I wuould like to run the machine 24/7, but would hate
> to see it's built-in monitor die].
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> 
> Alexander Holst
> SysAdmin MacLabor Visuelle Kommunikation
> Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences
> Germany
> ph.: +49 [0]7231 28-6837
> fx.: +49 [0]7231 28-6040
> <holst@fh-pforzheim.de>
>

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