Hi all,


In Slackware 9.1, Xfree86, a standby was a real standby, I mean the monitor went to low power and the LEDs on the monitor blinked orange, which showed that it was on standby.

Now in Slackware 10, xorg, does not have standby as such

xset + dpms
xset dpms force standby

produces a blank screen, which can be easily done by a screen saver, but the monitor is on full power!

How can you achieve real standby with Xorg

Do you have this in the monitor section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf?

Option "DPMS"

No I dont have any line like that,

but I think
xset +dpms has the same effect.

i have a dpms option in my graphics device section:

# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of graphics device sections may be present

Section "Device"
Identifier "Nvidia TNT2 M64 32MB"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "DPMS"
#VideoRam 4096
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection

From my similar experience, you have to have the line "Option "DPMS" like win32sux says.

Siri Amrit

I have tried this as well; also the Option line. To no avail. Any other suggestions?

setterm works on text terminals, including standby and off.

Do you have acpi support? (If i'm not wrong it's needed for the monitor too).

I will try that. However, if standby and power off works for the text console, why should I need ACPI for the graphic modes?

I have just checked make menuconfig, but I see little that could be of relevance, unless you have a laptop. Nothing about monitors anyway.

BTW I have Slack 10. It used to work under Slack 9.1

I tried the options "DPMS"

but to no avail, I still don't have proper standby!

Try spelling "Option" without an "s" on the end.
Worked for me--I had the same problem with xorg that you did.

Now if only I could fix my other xorg problems:

I use "copy" under rdesktop (running remotely) and get

Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 18 (X_ChangeProperty)
Atom id in failed request: 0x186
Serial number of failed request: 16003
Current serial number in output stream: 16005

rdesktop crashes. By "running remotely" I mean "ssh -XC remotehost" then start rdesktop there.


I use Mozilla on a remote box and get a message about "RENDER" not being installed despite xdpyinfo listing RENDER.

I try to use firefox 0.8 remotely and get

Gdk-ERROR **: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
serial 324 error_code 9 request_code 73 minor_code 0
Gdk-ERROR **: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
serial 325 error_code 10 request_code 102 minor_code 0

firefox doesn't start

Are you using KDE? I added the Option "DPMS" line to mine also, but I found that it still didn't work. I tried adjusting the power settings in KDE, and that worked. So you might want to give that a try if you are using KDE.

yes, I tried that. In fact, I tried that first. Then I guessed that xset force off is a faster way to find out if power management works. Then I discovered that that didn't work either.

Well

Adding

OPTIONS or OPTION does not make a difference in mine,

I still get no proper standby

Try lsmod to confirm the module has been loaded, then the standby should work. In any event, you can check the xorg log file. I don't have my Linux with me now. So can't confirm with you where the file is located. But, the standby and power-off (monitor) definately works.