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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 24 February 2011 16:23:31 Dale wrote:
>    
>> 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.
>>      
> I would have thought that DPMS is a an xorg function/issue, rather than KDE's.
>
> Things went sideways here when I upgrade xorg-server from 1.9.2 to 1.9.4.
>
>    

I thought the same thing.  Thing is, there are settings in KDE to tell 
it when to blank, cut off and all that.  I just know I couldn't get it 
to work until I did the things I posted.  It didn't make much sense but 
it works now.

Dale

:-)  :-)