From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 7 00:59:55 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC593106566B for ; Thu, 7 May 2009 00:59:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a.j.caines@halplant.com) Received: from eastrmpop109.cox.net (eastrmpop109.cox.net [68.230.240.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B1428FC13 for ; Thu, 7 May 2009 00:59:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a.j.caines@halplant.com) Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao103.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20090507004240.HEOF12338.eastrmmtao103.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Wed, 6 May 2009 20:42:40 -0400 Received: from mail.halplant.com ([68.105.188.179]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id oQig1b00H3sgWP002Qige3; Wed, 06 May 2009 20:42:40 -0400 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=aR16PxjQAAAA:8 a=Gt4o6GHaAAAA:8 a=V9O5pac4U5amr2XbS7sA:9 a=ZUMKhpvT-t09-I0onUWfMWS5584A:4 a=aWTTYslQkP0A:10 a=ZuKNhn6kRXAA:10 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Received: from hal10000.halplant.com (hal10000.halplant.com [192.168.0.3]) by mail.halplant.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 262605191 for ; Wed, 6 May 2009 20:42:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4A022E7F.70606@halplant.com> Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 20:42:39 -0400 From: "Andrew J. Caines" Organization: H.A.L. Plant User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090411) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-x11 References: <4A015128.9080602@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <4A015128.9080602@paradise.net.nz> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=67C318A1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: New DPMS behavior in 7.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 00:59:55 -0000 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 FreeBSD/Linux/Solaris, Web/Mail/Proxy/... http://halplant.com:2001/ "Machines take me by surprise with great frequency" - Alan Turing