Turn off X.org power management

cs-cam · 02-25-2006, 05:10 PM

Something in my setup at the moment is cause problems when my screen goes into standby. When I move my mouse it comes back but as soon as I click anything X freezes. If I kill X the framebuffer goes all screwy and the only way to rescue is a hard reset. I'm not using a laptop and I generally manually turn my screen off when I leave for more than 10mins anyway so I'm wondering how I can turn all power mamangement settings off? I've run 'xset -dpms' but that didn't seem to make a difference so is there something else I'm missing?

I'm running X.org 7 if that makes a difference and my video card is a Geforce 6600GT using the 8178 drivers if anyone knows of common problems with that version?

Thanks for any help

bathory · 02-25-2006, 05:38 PM

Try:

Code:

xset s off

or

Code:

xset dpms force off

to see if it helps.

pentalive · 02-25-2006, 06:08 PM

My laptop was doing that too- I think the BIOS was blanking the screen. In my case there is an alt-f11 key that stops that, at least it *seemed* to work.

HappyTux · 02-25-2006, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by cs-cam

Something in my setup at the moment is cause problems when my screen goes into standby. When I move my mouse it comes back but as soon as I click anything X freezes. If I kill X the framebuffer goes all screwy and the only way to rescue is a hard reset. I'm not using a laptop and I generally manually turn my screen off when I leave for more than 10mins anyway so I'm wondering how I can turn all power mamangement settings off? I've run 'xset -dpms' but that didn't seem to make a difference so is there something else I'm missing?

I'm running X.org 7 if that makes a difference and my video card is a Geforce 6600GT using the 8178 drivers if anyone knows of common problems with that version?

Thanks for any help

Try Option "DPMS" "false" in the monitor section in your xorg.conf.

cs-cam · 02-25-2006, 08:53 PM

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Code:

xset dpms force off

That'll turn the monitor off but thanks for the suggestion

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Try Option "DPMS" "false" in the monitor section in your xorg.conf.

Thanks, I'll definitely add that one.

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I think the BIOS was blanking the screen

Ha I never thought of that! Something else to check out.

Thanks for all the suggestions