[gentoo-user] Screen Power down

[gentoo-user] Screen Power down

[Timothy A. Holmes]

Hi folks:

I, like several others have been battling the problem of screens going
into power saver mode, and I have not been able to come to a resolution
to it yet.  I followed the discussion of several weeks ago, and it did
not appear to make a difference.  I have pasted in the relavant parts of
my xorg.conf.  If someone could please help me out here -- this is
getting a bit frustrating -- the options I specified according to the
messages from a couple weeks ago in the section under the monitor (the
DPMS etc)

There was a question at the time of the discussion if the 0 was the
appropriate value to turn stuff off, but I never heard a resolution on
that either.


# **********************************************************************
# Monitor section
# **********************************************************************
Section "Monitor"

    Identifier  "Laptop Panel"
    HorizSync   31.5
    VertRefresh 50-70
    Option "DPMS" "true"
    Option "BlankTime" "0"
    Option "StandbyTime" "0"
    Option "SuspendTime" "0"
    Option "OffTime" "0"

EndSection


# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************
Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Standard VGA"
    VendorName  "Unknown"
    BoardName   "Unknown"
    Driver     "vga"
EndSection

# Device configured by xorgconfig:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Ati Radeon 9600 M"
    Driver      "radeon"
    #VideoRam    131072
    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection


# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "Ati Radeon 9600 M"
    Monitor     "Laptop Panel"
    DefaultDepth 24

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "1024x768" "1280x1024" "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes       "1024x768" "1280x1024" "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        modes       "1440x900"
#       Modes       "1024x768" "1280x1024" "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection




Timothy A. Holmes
IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher
 
Medina Christian Academy
A Higher Standard...
 
Jeremiah 33:3
Jeremiah 29:11
Esther 4:14



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Re: [gentoo-user] Screen Power down

[Raymond Lewis Rebbeck]

On Friday, 2 June 2006 23:48, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> Hi folks:
>
> I, like several others have been battling the problem of screens going
> into power saver mode, and I have not been able to come to a resolution
> to it yet.  I followed the discussion of several weeks ago, and it did
> not appear to make a difference.  I have pasted in the relavant parts of
> my xorg.conf.  If someone could please help me out here -- this is
> getting a bit frustrating -- the options I specified according to the
> messages from a couple weeks ago in the section under the monitor (the
> DPMS etc)
>
> There was a question at the time of the discussion if the 0 was the
> appropriate value to turn stuff off, but I never heard a resolution on
> that either.
>
> blah blah
>

Remove the following line.
>     Option "DPMS" "true"
>
> blah blah
>
>
> Timothy A. Holmes
> IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher
>
> Medina Christian Academy
> A Higher Standard...
>
> Jeremiah 33:3
> Jeremiah 29:11
> Esther 4:14

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Re: [gentoo-user] Screen Power down

[Peper]

If you are using KDE check your settings in Control Center(Peripherals -> 
Display -> Power Control Tab).
Second thing is to check if you don't have any power saving oprions in your 
monitor's OSD menu.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Screen Power down

[Teresa and Dale]

Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote:

>Remove the following line.
>  
>
>>    Option "DPMS" "true"
>>
>>blah blah
>>
>>    
>>

That should work.  If DPMS is not enabled it should not be able to cut
off the monitor at all.  Don't forget to check setterm if you are using
a console.  That is controlled seperately from the GUI stuff.

>>Timothy A. Holmes
>>IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher
>>
>>Medina Christian Academy
>>A Higher Standard...
>>
>>Jeremiah 33:3
>>Jeremiah 29:11
>>Esther 4:14
>>    
>>
>
>  
>


Dale
:-)  :-)
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RE: [gentoo-user] Screen Power down

[Timothy A. Holmes]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peper [mailto:peper@aster.pl]
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 10:43 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Screen Power down
> 
> If you are using KDE check your settings in Control Center(Peripherals
->
> Display -> Power Control Tab).
> Second thing is to check if you don't have any power saving oprions in
> your
> monitor's OSD menu.
> 
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> Best Regards,
> Peper
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[Timothy A. Holmes] 

Peper:

I use fluxbox on all my gentoo stations, and the monitor is a lcd panel
on the laptop

TIM


Timothy A. Holmes
IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher
 
Medina Christian Academy
A Higher Standard...
 
Jeremiah 33:3
Jeremiah 29:11
Esther 4:14



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RE: [gentoo-user] Screen Power down

[Timothy A. Holmes]

> Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote:
> 
> >Remove the following line.
> >
> >
> >>    Option "DPMS" "true"
> >>
> >>blah blah
> >>
> >>
> That should work.  If DPMS is not enabled it should not be able to cut
> off the monitor at all.  Don't forget to check setterm if you are
using
> a console.  That is controlled seperately from the GUI stuff.
> 

[Timothy A. Holmes] 


Hummmm -- its still powering down -- after about 10 minutes or so -- any
other ideas?

Timothy A. Holmes
IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher
 
Medina Christian Academy
A Higher Standard...
 
Jeremiah 33:3
Jeremiah 29:11
Esther 4:14


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Re: [gentoo-user] Screen Power down

[Richard Fish]

On 6/2/06, Timothy A. Holmes <tholmes@mcaschool.net> wrote:
> Section "Monitor"
>
>     Identifier  "Laptop Panel"
>     HorizSync   31.5
>     VertRefresh 50-70
>     Option "DPMS" "true"
>     Option "BlankTime" "0"
>     Option "StandbyTime" "0"
>     Option "SuspendTime" "0"
>     Option "OffTime" "0"

RTFM

According to "man xorg.conf", the BlankTime, StandbyTime, SuspendTime
and OffTime settings are supposed to be in the ServerFlags section,
not in the Monitor section.

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] Screen Power down

[Mick]

On 02/06/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:

>
> RTFM
>
> According to "man xorg.conf", the BlankTime, StandbyTime, SuspendTime
> and OffTime settings are supposed to be in the ServerFlags section,
> not in the Monitor section.

Also, I am not sure that completely removing the DPMS entry is the
same as adding "false" instead of "true".  Worth trying it out .
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Re: [gentoo-user] Screen Power down

[Teresa and Dale]

Mick wrote:

> On 02/06/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> RTFM
>>
>> According to "man xorg.conf", the BlankTime, StandbyTime, SuspendTime
>> and OffTime settings are supposed to be in the ServerFlags section,
>> not in the Monitor section.
>
>
> Also, I am not sure that completely removing the DPMS entry is the
> same as adding "false" instead of "true".  Worth trying it out .


I'm not sure anymore either.  It used to be that way though.  If it was
not in there, the monitor would stay on all the time, except when in
console.  That may have changed though.  I may have even been using
Xfree then too.  I just always thought it was a option that you had to
turn on.

Me out of clues.

Dale
:-) :-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Screen Power down

[Richard Fish]

On 6/2/06, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, I am not sure that completely removing the DPMS entry is the
> same as adding "false" instead of "true".  Worth trying it out .

You can check quite quickly whether DPMS is enabled or not by running:

xset -q

You can also disable it manually with the xset command.

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] Screen Power down

[Mick]

On 02/06/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
> On 6/2/06, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Also, I am not sure that completely removing the DPMS entry is the
> > same as adding "false" instead of "true".  Worth trying it out .
>
> You can check quite quickly whether DPMS is enabled or not by running:
>
> xset -q
>
> You can also disable it manually with the xset command.

Very useful tip!  I note two different settings on mine:
=============================
Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  600    cycle:  600
=============================

and
=============================
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 1200    Suspend: 600    Off: 2400
  DPMS is Enabled
  Monitor is On
=============================

Where is Screen Saver set?  I don't have anything in my xorg.conf . . .

<OT> Also a bit of an OT question (apologies to the OP): my mouse is a
bit jerky when I move it quickly in a straight line.  The above query
shows:
=============================
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  2/1    threshold:  4
=============================

Is this normal?  How do I control its jerkiness? </OT>
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