From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Pseho-0004KW-Jf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:10:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD7611C044 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:10:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vx0-f181.google.com (mail-vx0-f181.google.com [209.85.220.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B2FD1C012 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:23:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxb39 with SMTP id 39so768808vxb.40 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:23:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=dAGCIQhMBzz4PkQKFqdYzf7Ar7Tu2qxiiXpE18vF3QU=; b=fRPEa04evmXrHbBpJERpkesUfpJCSCT4PriClwmkgkPwsD9YkrZO7qN/n7BaWMjshc zZ0S9albS0W5YF7rBtIowRZlEqv89fQzjv+/CB82gMnHfd9T7QMQcvvgmlbai+MW/iBy arN8EisLifVNsByIpU3q8wK+h9me9ADbL7u/U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=co1FjYGJyDSWBir6FJLqu+RA6UnpPsfFZQQnM0v67TFFzhMTnvWxIkMmizGR5Dh1lx N93BghnDx2MxkDPo3VB05q7l/GMCj2rgEu6sDCccl9xOlRcK/LaW+jLoz+MVmDfK1r6k +0v40aeYpKLX3qVzyB99phTA7NVL6vLNvxgnY= Received: by 10.52.168.65 with SMTP id zu1mr1959189vdb.8.1298564613955; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:23:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-93-174.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.93.174]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u4sm4292517vch.12.2011.02.24.08.23.32 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:23:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D668603.1030106@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:23:31 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110217 Gentoo/2.0.11 SeaMonkey/2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.4 and DPMS References: <4D655E3E.4060900@gmail.com> <201102232319.21861.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201102232319.21861.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 113df107d253aa035ff6b9f8018c8df2 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 :-) :-)