From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 7:56:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.bsag.ch (ns.bsag.ch [62.2.201.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D85137B400 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 07:56:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.bsag.ch (root@localhost) by ns.bsag.ch with ESMTP id g47Ex0011154 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 16:59:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ns.bsag.ch (bs13.bsag.ch [192.168.1.13]) by gw.bsag.ch with ESMTP id g47EwxU11150 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 16:58:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bsag.ch (bs82 [192.168.1.82]) by ns.bsag.ch (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id g47EuQ128764 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 16:56:26 +0200 Received: (from hpr@localhost) by bsag.ch (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g47EuPs76460 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 7 May 2002 16:56:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com) Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 16:56:25 +0200 From: Hanspeter Roth To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Green Mode" for monitors Message-ID: <20020507165625.A75988@bsag.ch> Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020507123034.28203.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020507123034.28203.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org>; from atk2@arctic.org on Tue, May 07, 2002 at 12:30:34PM -0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On May 07 at 12:30, atk2@arctic.org spoke: > > Under freebsd 2.2.7 I had green mode enabled and at the appropriate time > my monitor would switch off... > > Under freebsd 4.5 this does not happen. It just goes blank. I believe I am > running XFree86 3.6 (was 3.5 under 2.2.7 - and I'm using the same XF86Config > file). I believe xset dpms is new for this version of XFree86 -- but I have > it enabled (aka xset dpsm 300 600 1200). To determine your XFree86 version run: xdpyinfo | grep version What does xset -q | egrep -i dpms\|stand tell? You may also need xset +dpms I have XFree86 4.2.0. But Dpms doesn't seem to work on my configuration either. > > There is also some values in the rc.conf file (blankscreen I believe)... The saver= in the rc.conf affects the console but not X-Windows. -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message