turn off LCD automatically when idle?

gbonvehi · 04-24-2005, 02:55 PM

The time is measure in minutes. I don't know why it could shut off, maybe it's just blanking instead of shutting down (display all black in the screen) ?
Movie players should turn energy saving features off, but I guess yours not, so you can manually enable/disable while running X using:

Code:

xset -dpms

to turn the off and

Code:

xset +dpms

to turn them on.

PS: You've OffTime defined in two different places.
PS2: Try removing the comments before posting the file, it makes it very hard to read.

linuxhippy · 04-24-2005, 03:10 PM

My CRT monitor on my tower shuts down automatically after 10 minutes of inactivity. I have the power saving features in my BIOS activated.

With my laptop, even when the power settings were activated in my BIOS, the LCD screen wouldn't shutdown when idle at the console. What I did was activate APM screen blanking in the kernel when I rebuilt the kernel....my laptop is 6 years old and uses APM-the newer pcs use the newer power saving feature. Then I have modprobe apm in a startup script. Now my laptop screen blanks after a couple minutes at the console so I leave it on 24/7.

houler · 04-24-2005, 03:57 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by gbonvehi
The time is measure in minutes. I don't know why it could shut off, maybe it's just blanking instead of shutting down (display all black in the screen) ?
Movie players should turn energy saving features off, but I guess yours not, so you can manually enable/disable while running X using:

Code:

xset -dpms

to turn the off and

Code:

xset +dpms

to turn them on.

PS: You've OffTime defined in two different places.
PS2: Try removing the comments before posting the file, it makes it very hard to read.

The monitor would actually shut down. Like if it was an all black screen there would still be some type of 'backlight' to show that the monitor is on.

I commented the 'offtime' in Section "ServerLayout".

Is my xorg.conf file correct?

gbonvehi · 04-24-2005, 04:02 PM

It seems correct, try setting StandbyTime and SuspendTime to 0, like:

Code:

Option "StandbyTime"   "0"
Option "SuspendTime"   "0"
Option "OffTime"       "25"