From: Marcin Zwd <marcinzwd@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] How to turn off the screen permanently
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:22:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3cbca78e0902150322n513217afrfcdfc5cb6a42c0c1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Well, I've just upgraded my laptop. The old one has ati
radeon r250 graphics card. On this card I can easily turn
off the screen using nice program "radeantool" of course
"xset dpms force off" worked as well. And "turn off" was
permanent. It is worth to mention that I was using
x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati opensource drivers... On the
other hand, the new laptop has nvidia (quadro 135) aboard
and now I'm using x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.82.
Everything works fine except one tiny problem now if I turn
off the screen and backlight after a few seconds the
backlight is back on!
For example:
$ xset dpms 0 0 5
The screen is nicely turning off after 5 seconds but after
3-8 seconds the backlight is back on! Then, I notice that
this is the screensaver. So I tried again
$ xset s off
$ xset dpms 0 0 5
And now after about 10 seconds I have whole screen back on!
I even tried vbetool dpms off. By the way it is not working
smoothly for me, so manage little ugly hack
--- screenoff --------------------
#!/bin/bash
for ((i=0;i<256;i++)); do
/usr/sbin/vbetool dpms off &
sleep 0.5
PID=`pidof vbetool`
if [ -n "$PID" ]; then
kill -9 $PID >/dev/null 2>&1
else
exit
fi
done >/dev/null 2>&1
But even now screen is back on again!!!
I'm using gentoo stable (gnome)
x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r6
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.82
without
gnome-extra/gnome-screensaver
Thanks in advance for any suggestion
next reply other threads:[~2009-02-15 11:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-15 11:22 Marcin Zwd [this message]
2009-02-15 11:56 ` [gentoo-user] Re: How to turn off the screen permanently Marcin Zwd
2009-02-19 9:49 ` [gentoo-user] " Vladimir Rusinov
2009-02-19 12:58 ` Saphirus Sage
2009-02-20 19:16 ` Marcin Zwd
2009-02-20 19:00 ` Marcin Zwd
2009-02-21 15:25 ` Florian Philipp
2009-02-22 10:15 ` Marcin Zwd
2009-02-22 11:53 ` Marcin Zwd
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