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Date:      Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:01:10 +0100
From:      Melvyn Sopacua <freebsd-current@webteckies.org>
To:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: API to turn off the display
Message-ID:  <200401301001.15675.freebsd-current@webteckies.org>
In-Reply-To: <1075423821.2664.197.camel@mobius.int.thebadger.org>
References:  <1075401074.2660.106.camel@mobius.int.thebadger.org> <200401300113.49178.freebsd-current@webteckies.org> <1075423821.2664.197.camel@mobius.int.thebadger.org>

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On Friday 30 January 2004 01:50, James Green wrote:

> It should work in both. (I run X via both gdm and startx) It will also
> work from the console when X is not running as the xset commands just
> timeout. The DPMS calls stop it from screwing up your display in X.
>
> Try 'xset dpms force off' as the user you are logged in as (i.e. not
> root) If that does not turn off the display but blanks it, you probably
> need to look at drivers for Xfree that fully support DPMS for your card.

It does nothing at all and the card is NVidia GeForce 4200 Go. I had to twe=
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follow this up with the XFree86 guys.

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