power saving for monitor?

[bigjohn]

Hi,

 

I normally don't have any power saving options set for my monitor. I rely on the screensaver.

 

I've noticed that the monitor switches to standby - which isn't a facility that the monitor will do on it's own.

 

I've got all the display/KDE settings set on "disabled".

 

Where else do I need to look to check why this is happening ????

 

regards

 

John

 

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[ianw1974]

In /etc/X11/xorg.conf you can check for the Option "DPMS" in the Device section. Here is mine:

 

Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "nVidia Corp."
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"
Driver "nv"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

 

if you remove this by placing a # in the front, it will stop your monitor going into power save mode. The card is probably powering down instead of the monitor or something like that. I too normally just turn off the power options which works for me. But it might be relating to this as well.

[ianw1974]

Another place, in case you've not checked:

 

System/Configuration/KDE/Power Control/Power Control

 

has a load of settings for display control. This is also the same as right-clicking desktop/configure/display/power control. Which I'm thinking you've probably already done this.

 

The xorg.conf entry will do it permanently, regardless of setting in here I believe.

[bigjohn]

Ok ianw1974, I've commented it out as you suggested

 

Section "Device"

Identifier "device1"

VendorName "nVidia Corp."

BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"

Driver "nvidia"

#Option "DPMS"

Option "IgnoreEDID" "1"

EndSection

 

I'll take a look in the morning to see if the monitor still has the screen saver running.

 

I did wonder if the Option "IgnoreEDID" "1" made any difference, but I didn't manage to find what that option is actually referring too from google.

 

regards

 

John