Slack 9.1: Monitor does not turn off.

asklepios · 10-08-2003, 02:03 PM

greetings everyone

I recently installed Slackware 9.1 and first things that caused me real problems is that my system did not power down completely and monitor does not turn off after X number of seconds.
Searched around and found that doing this will solve the problem.

Code:

modprobe apm

Well now the shutdown problem is gone but my monitor still does not turn off after 2 minutes, which i have setted it to in "Display Power Management".
i tried

Code:

xset dpms 2

but that doesn't solve the thing either.

any ideas are highly appreciated.

thanx for reading.

hemp4fuel · 10-08-2003, 02:17 PM

make sure you have the xscreenserver set the way you want it and add this line to the monitor section of your XF86Config file:
Option "DPMS"
then restart x and it should work.

asklepios · 10-08-2003, 02:29 PM

you know you are a star...right?!!!
it works flawlessly mate.
thanx a lot.