Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 07:13:23 -0800 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: screen power saving question Message-ID: <20030309151322.GL2461@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <20030308220241.A39533@skytrackercanada.com> References: <20030308220241.A39533@skytrackercanada.com>
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--n83H03bbH672hrlY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 10:02:41PM -0500, David Banning wrote: > I am having a problem where my monitor shuts down into power saving > mode, and does not always come back up when I hit the keyboard > or move the mouse. >=20 > I am running FreeBSD 4.7 with XFree86 4.3 and xfce window manager. > My question is; >=20 > What gives the the command to the monitor to go into power saving mode? > Is it my bios? Does XFree86 monitor the use of the keyboard/mouse? > Is is the window manager/xfce? > Or maybe it's even FreeBSD itself? Two things in X which control monitor power savings are: DPMS and the screensaver. You can set and check both of these with the command `xset`. Do an `xset q` to view your current settings and also take a look at xset's man page. To set the screen to blank at after 10 minutes I would issue `xset s 600`. `xset dpms 900 1800 3600` would set the monitor to 'standby' after 15 minutes -> to 'suspend' after 30 minutes -> 'off' after 45 minutes. Nathan --=20 GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4250A04C http://63.105.21.156/gpg_nkinkade_4250A04C.asc --n83H03bbH672hrlY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+a1oSWZYS9EJQoEwRAlrtAKCrxkx1OOitHPpvuyzS+No225TrhwCg1pam kO7LViHbEul2dqm2te+Wi6M= =YFG2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --n83H03bbH672hrlY-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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