NVIDIA driver and DPMS: backlight never switches off
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
m3freak at rogers.com
Wed Jan 11 23:38:19 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 20:45 +0000, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> Yes, perhaps. How did you configure DPMS? What I have is this in my
> xorg.conf:
>
> In the "Monitor" section:
>
> Option "DPMS" "true"
Yep, that's what I have:
Option "dpms" "true"
> and in the "Device" section:
>
> Option "DPMS"
>
> (This last bit is apparently required by the NVIDIA driver.)
Really? I don't use it in the Device section and haven't had a problem.
Is this documented in the README.txt for the driver from NVIDIA?
> If you are using the latest 8178
> driver maybe I should try building an rpm of it for my kernel from
> Livna's src rpm and trying again. Are you using 8178?
Yes, I'm using the latest release from NVIDIA. I don't use the Livna
packages.
Regards,
Ranbir
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