Re: [gentoo-user] How to turn off the screen permanently

[Marcin Zwd <marcinzwd@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Vladimir Rusinov
<vladimir@greenmice.info> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Marcin Zwd <marcinzwd@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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!
>
> Try following:
> sleep 1 && xset dpms force off
>

Thanks, I tried that before as well. Besides the screen is turning off, however
just for a few seconds. My guess is that probably gnome or some other
apps is turning the screen back on.

So, it seems that only I have this kind of problem :(

Marcin