Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 15:51:04 +1200 From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> To: "Andrew J. Caines" <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> Cc: freebsd-x11 <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New DPMS behavior in 7.4 Message-ID: <4A07A0A8.3020002@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <4A022E7F.70606@halplant.com> References: <4A015128.9080602@paradise.net.nz> <4A022E7F.70606@halplant.com>
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Andrew J. Caines wrote: > Mark, > > >> I've recently upgraded to Xorg 7.4 and Gnome 2.26. I notice that when >> the monitor screen in blanked that the power lamp stays green always - >> never goes to orange (it used to with Xorg 7.3 + Gnome 2.24). Is this >> expected? >> > > I don't know, but you can check the blanking and DPMS and times for > Standby, Suspend and Off with "xset -q", e.g. > > # xset -q > ... > Screen Saver: > prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes > timeout: 600 cycle: 600 > ... > DPMS (Energy Star): > Standby: 900 Suspend: 0 Off: 0 > DPMS is Enabled > Monitor is On > > This fits with what I explicitly configure in xorg.conf. > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "X.org Configured" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > Option "blank time" "10" > Option "standby time" "15" > Option "suspend time" "0" > Option "off time" "0" > Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" > EndSection > > Make sure you have the green_saver kernel module loaded. > > # kldstat | fgrep green > 32 1 0xc614f000 2000 green_saver.ko > > If you don't, then add saver="green" to your rc.conf and "kldload > green_saver". > > Thanks Andrew, 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 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On ... and sure enough, monitor light stays green, even after 30 minutes. I have the 'green_saver' module loaded: $ kldstat |grep green 7 1 0xc5cbf000 2000 green_saver.ko Any ideas? Thanks Mark
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