Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 08:01:31 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [SDBUG] Re: Monitor dimming Message-ID: <20030703070131.GB39313@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030702213401.S79349@rocket.alienwebshop.com> References: <20030617211903.G32633-100000@Video2Video.Com> <20030618080133.GA44582@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20030701221136.O38280@rocket.alienwebshop.com> <20030702085113.GB37159@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20030702213401.S79349@rocket.alienwebshop.com>
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 09:37:46PM -0400, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > There's lots of stuff that might go into XF86Config which isn't
> > mentioned in the automatically generated config file, produced by
>=20
> But I meant, in *my* XF86Config there is no mention of the blanktime or
> standby or suspend timings, and yet, after about 5-10 minutes of idle time
> my monitor somehow KNOWS to dim itself. Where else might I find the caus=
e?
I suspect that XFree86 is just applying its default settings, given
that you haven't told it to do otherwise.
> Is xset the only thing that can make use of DPMS or is there a binary in
> the default / standard / minimum *BSD installation to control it too?
Look at vidcontrol(1) -- specifically the '-t blanktime' option. You
can go direct to the screen saver on a console screen by hitting
Shift-Pause -- see splash(4). However whether this involves DPMS
directly or not, I don't know.
Cheers,
Matthew
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