Power Management Problems

fiveball02 · 08-20-2006, 07:51 PM

I have been having problems getting the power management feature to work correctly. The default for the screen to turn off is 10 min. I tend to watch movies on my computer frequently and I like to turn this off when I'm watching them only now matter where I set it, it always shuts off at 10 min. I have tried restarting the computer and that will not work either.

Custom Box
Asus Motherboard
PIII 1.13
256 Ram
FC5

w3bd3vil · 08-20-2006, 08:53 PM

view your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, for these things and see if these are set. option DMPS switches off the monitor after 10 minutes in this case.

Quote:

Section "Monitor"
Option "DPMS"

Section "ServerLayout"
Option "OffTime" "10"

fiveball02 · 08-20-2006, 09:06 PM

The Monitor section is set to "dpms"....The serverlayout section does not have the offtime option. What would I set it to so that the monitor never turns off?

w3bd3vil · 08-20-2006, 09:08 PM

Quote:

#Option "DPMS"

just hash out the the dpms line and try it out.
you'll have to restart X or reboot.

fiveball02 · 08-20-2006, 09:38 PM

I did hash out the dpms part and rebooted and the monitor still shut off after 10 min.

fiveball02 · 08-22-2006, 10:41 AM

I did some searching on other forums and found the solution to my problem on fedoraproject.org. Someone on there was having the same problems I was and all's he did to resolve the problem was uninstall gnome-screensaver and then reinstall it. I tried it and it worked for me. Thanks for the help anyways.