F9 - DPMS not working

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

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
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