Re: turn off the lcd panel (also backlight) - complementary note

From: Ned Konz <ned.a.t.bike-nomad.com>
Date: Fri Oct 29 2004 - 16:14:11 EDT

On Thursday 21 October 2004 3:24 pm, bliq wrote:
> if you want that gnome SCREENSAVER turn off the screen and the backlight
> (after adding dpms to config of X), you should set the following: go to the
> gnome screensaver settings > advanced and enable 'Display power
> management'. You should let 'standby' and 'suspend' values at zero, only
> set the 'Off after' value. If you set also some times for standby and
> suspend, the screen will go blank but not the light off.

Which should get the same results (for 20 minutes delay) as

 xset dpms 0 0 20

but that doesn't turn off the display.

You can try this out quickly as:

 xset dpms 0 0 1

and see what happens (or use "xset dpms force off").

And on my system, I can't switch away from the nvidia X driver to go to a text
window. The system hangs.

I'm using vesafb-tng, which works great with the "nv" X driver.

-- 
Ned Konz
http://bike-nomad.com
Received on Fri Oct 29 16:14:20 2004

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