Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.4 and DPMS

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Mick wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 February 2011 19:21:34 Dale wrote:
>    
>>      
>> When I upgraded to KDE4, I had to start using xset to handle turning my
>> monitor off.  I put it in the startup section and it seems to work OK.
>>      
> This is strange - I added  Option "DPMS"   "on" under the Monitor section in
> the xorg.conf, but it won't take.
>
> xset +dpms works fine ...
>
> Why would that be?
>    

I think there is a thread where I asked the same thing.  When I first 
upgraded to KDE4, my monitor would not turn off unless I turned it off 
myself.  I set up a script that runs when I login to cut off the 
monitor.  I have another script that sets it back when I log out.  I put 
it in ~.kde4/Autostart.  It's the same commands I tested manually and it 
works fine.

If I recall correctly, KDE was not quite up to speed on controlling the 
monitor with DPMS yet.  That was back in the 4.1 days so that may have 
changed but given you are having issues with it, maybe it is still 
having problems.  This could be due to the hal/udev/polkit switch as 
well.  They may be letting all that settle so that they only have to 
write the code once.  I would do that if it was me.  ;-)

This is my settings when I am logged in:

xset dpms 3600 3600 3600

I think that is one hour.  I'm pretty sure it is measured in seconds not 
minutes.

Dale

:-)  :-)