Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 20:42:39 -0400 From: "Andrew J. Caines" <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> To: freebsd-x11 <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New DPMS behavior in 7.4 Message-ID: <4A022E7F.70606@halplant.com> In-Reply-To: <4A015128.9080602@paradise.net.nz> References: <4A015128.9080602@paradise.net.nz>
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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".
--
-Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com
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