From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 11 05:04:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E089B1065672 for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 05:04:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a.j.caines@halplant.com) Received: from eastrmmtao101.cox.net (eastrmmtao101.cox.net [68.230.240.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E8928FC13 for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 05:04:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a.j.caines@halplant.com) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao101.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20090511050410.TSZH5257.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net>; Mon, 11 May 2009 01:04:10 -0400 Received: from mail.halplant.com ([68.105.188.179]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id q5491b0053sgWP002549eP; Mon, 11 May 2009 01:04:09 -0400 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=Gt4o6GHaAAAA:8 a=_vXiOijomsP36DL74uQA:9 a=bGgKxcpfVNMSv-BnZOE3wN_McsUA:4 a=ZuKNhn6kRXAA:10 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Received: from hal10000.halplant.com (hal10000.halplant.com [192.168.0.3]) by mail.halplant.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E750C51; Mon, 11 May 2009 01:04:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4A07B1C8.7040200@halplant.com> Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 01:04:08 -0400 From: "Andrew J. Caines" Organization: H.A.L. Plant User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090411) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Kirkwood References: <4A015128.9080602@paradise.net.nz> <4A022E7F.70606@halplant.com> <4A07A0A8.3020002@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <4A07A0A8.3020002@paradise.net.nz> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=67C318A1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 11 May 2009 05:23:08 +0000 Cc: Subject: Re: New DPMS behavior in 7.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 05:04:11 -0000 Mark > Adding similar lines into xorg.conf results in an encouraging entry in > X11.0.log: > (**) Option "BlankTime" "10" > (**) Option "StandbyTime" "15" > (**) Option "SuspendTime" "0" > (**) Option "OffTime" "30" > However xset does not pick 'em up: > DPMS (Energy Star): > Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0 Looks like something which starts after the X server is applying different settings. That something is very likely a desktop manager - Gnome, KDE, XFCE, etc. If you are running one of these, then look at the settings relating to screensavers, power settings or wherever it hides these settings. -- -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com FreeBSD/Linux/Solaris, Web/Mail/Proxy/... http://halplant.com:2001/ "Machines take me by surprise with great frequency" - Alan Turing