Monitor doesn't turn go into powersave

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Tue Dec 29 12:14:21 UTC 2009


Bob Goodwin writes:

> On 28/12/09 20:10, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> It's a kernel boot parameter, append it at the end of the "kernel" 
>> line in grub.conf
>>
>> Another thing that I've noticed -- if you have a leftover 
>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf from the previous Fedora release, rename xorg.conf 
>> and restart, letting X start with a default configuration.
>>
>> I haven't yet fully verified it, but even if I boot with the 
>> unmodified kernel boot line, after removing xorg.conf, it looks like 
>> power management also starts working.
>>
>>
> .
> I tried in both the grub GUI and /boot/grub/grub.conf. In neither case 
> did the screen blank after five minutes  as it is set to do.
> 
>     title Omega 12.1 Fedora Remix (2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64)
>          root (hd0,0)
>          kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 ro
>     root=/dev/mapper/vg_box6-lv_root noiswmd LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>     SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us --nomodeset

You did not specify "nomodeset". You specified "--nomodeset". Remove the 
dashes.


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