Display woes

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 6/2/06, Ben Lancaster <lists at benlancaster.co.uk> wrote:
> 1) I'm having a bit of difficulty getting the latest nvidia graphics
> drivers to run ( installed from atrpms via yum), here's what happens:
>
> # yum install nvidia-graphics8762
> -- all OK
>
> # nvidia-graphics-switch 8762
> # tail /var/log/messages
> -- snip --
> Jun  2 23:56:12 benlancaster yum: Installed: nvidia-
> graphics8762.x86_64 1:1.0_8762-72.rhfc5.at
> Jun  2 23:56:24 benlancaster kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux
> x86_64 Kernel Module  1.0-8762  Mon May 15 13:58:14 PDT 2006
>
> # init 5
> # tail /var/log/messages
> Jun  2 23:56:46 benlancaster init: Switching to runlevel: 5
> Jun  2 23:56:47 benlancaster kernel: NVRM: not using NVAGP, kernel
> was compiled with GART_IOMMU support!!

That isn't an X failure, its an AGP driver failure, but shouldn't be
fatal to starting X.  Is X running?  What does your X log look like?

> 2) I can't seem to disable DPMS (screen blanking). My xorg.conf
> contains:
> Option      "dpms" "false"
> ... in the right section, and I've also used:
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xset -dpms
> ...in my ~/.Xclients startup script (which is being successfully
> executed)

The dpms option in xorg.conf can only be used to turn it on, not off.
xset is the right command, however what you're running is missing the
parameter for the dpms option, so its likely doing nothing.  The
command you likely want is:
xset dpms force off

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