monitor powering off

dive · 04-12-2006, 09:23 PM

I'm trying to change the monitor blanking time. For a while now it's blanked at 10 mins, and I'm trying to set it for 30, but I can't find any way of affecting it.

Things I've tried so far:

Option "OffTime" "30" and
Option "DPMS" in xorg.conf

Then tried turning DPMS off altogether:
Took out all dpms options in xorg.conf
xset -dpms

Killed acpid daemon
/bin/setterm -blank 30 -powersave powerdown -powerdown 60

The last option I know shouldn't affect X but I tried it just in case.

Are there any other ways of controlling monitor blanking?

cwwilson721 · 04-12-2006, 11:13 PM

Have you tried disabling the screensaver?

dive · 04-12-2006, 11:14 PM

Yes xscreensaver is disabled, and I also checked kde's because I sometimes run kde progs

drumz · 04-12-2006, 11:52 PM

In a run dialog try

Code:

xset dpms <standby time in minutes> <suspend time in minutes> <off time in minutes>

xset dpms 0 0 0 should turn powersavings off. Then again, xset -dpms should have, as well.

dive · 04-13-2006, 12:05 AM

Strange. I just booted up xscreensaver and set to blank after 30, and also checked power management and turned that on too. I was thinking/hoping that xscreensaver might override whatever was blanking the screen.

It didn't help, but when I redisabled xscreensaver and killed the daemon the monitor stayed on.

Hopefully this is solved. I've also just tried xset dpms 30 60 120 to see if that is working again as it should.