Re: xset (Was: FBIOPUTCMAP failed (X crashes))


Subject: Re: xset (Was: FBIOPUTCMAP failed (X crashes))
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Sun Mar 05 2000 - 15:00:33 MST


Screen blanking kills fbdev. So the choices are: turn off blanking, use
Xpmac instead, go to console when you want your system to be idle,
shutdown when you're away from your computer, or upgrade to a newer
XFree86 (which may or may not fix the problem).

>
> > Run the command: xset s blank s off
>
> OK, it does. However, the screen never goes off no matter how
> long it's idle -- something I want to happen with a PowerBook
> running on battery.
>
> I RTFM for xset and it's not clear how "xset s" commands
> interact with "xset dpms" commands. The manual page also
> doesn't say what the difference between "standby," "suspend"
> and "off" are (though, if I had to guess, "standby" = blank,
> "off" = off, but I can't guess what "suspend" would be).
>
> I tried doing an "xset dpms force standby" and I get a
> "BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)" error.
>
> Has anybody got his PowerBook to shut the display off in, say,
> 3 minutes? If so, what's the right xset incantation (taking
> into consideration Dan's answer so that the X server won't
> crash)?
>
> - Paul
>
>

Regards,
Dan

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