Monitor powermanagment only sends black screen, doesn't suspend or powerdown.

oryan_dunn · 06-13-2005, 10:20 PM

Here's my setup:
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro and a Mag Innovision monitor.

I've set the monitor power management in both KDE and GNOME, but in both cases, the monitor will not suspend or powerdown. It only gets sent a black screen (the led on the front doesn't change from green to amber). I'm running Suse 9.3 Pro; is there any services other than ACPI that need to be enabled? Are there any configuration lines I need to add to xorg.conf?

Thanks,
Ryan

comprookie2000 · 06-14-2005, 03:40 PM

Do you have this in xorg.conf after VertRefresh

VertRefresh XX-XX
Option "DPMS"

oryan_dunn · 06-14-2005, 07:49 PM

added that and it worked. Thanks
Ryan

comprookie2000 · 06-14-2005, 08:00 PM

Your welcome,thanks for posting back.

V@no · 09-07-2006, 08:09 AM

Hi!
What about console? I've tryed all kind of settings with setterm but nothing worked...only blank screen or nothing at all I could achive...
can someone plese give me a clue where else I should look?
Thanks.