F9 - DPMS not working

Steve Underwood steveu at coppice.org
Mon Jun 2 23:40:13 UTC 2008


Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> John Horne <john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk> writes:
>   
>> Same occurs using the vesa driver - automatically start screensaver and
>> it is always there; start it manually or just let dpms kick in and the
>> screen blanks.
>>     
>
> I also see a problem with F9's DPMS being unreliable under gnome and
> the Radeon Xorg driver.  I don't use one of the chew-up-your-cpu
> screen savers (I just have a blank screen).  Sometimes when I come
> back after *hours* the screen is still on and displaying my desktop.
> I've learned to just hit the manual screen saver button on the lower
> right-hand side of my Samsung LCD.
>
> -wolfgang
>   
I think the problems with DPMS are probably general to all drivers. I 
did a fresh installed of fedora 9 on the box I am using now. This has an 
old Matrox 400 card, and has seen many versions of Linux. For the first 
time in years, the install did not pick up the screen type automatically.

Steve




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