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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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