Re: [SLE] Suspend Monitor

From: Sid Boyce (sboyce_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 12/15/04

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    Terry Eck wrote:
    > How do I get my Monitor to suspend?
    >
    > Running nvidia 1.0-6629
    > GeForce FX 5200 card
    > SuSE 9.2
    > Monitor is Sony HMD-A440/LXU
    > The following is inside XF86Config:
    >
    > under Section "Monitor"
    > Option "DPMS"
    >
    > and under "ServerLayout"
    > Option "BlankTime" "20"
    > Option "StandbyTime" "30"
    > Option "SuspendTime" "40"
    > Option "OffTime" "60"
    >
    > Inside /var/log/XFree86.0.log I get the warning:
    > (WW) Open APM failed (dev/apm_bios) (No such device)
    >
    > How do I get /dev/apm_bios?

    # l /dev/apm_bios
    crw------- 1 root root 10, 134 2004-10-02 09:38 /dev/apm_bios
    I get the same message, I don't know if APM needs to be active, I'm
    using ACPI.

    >
    > When I'm logged out and kdm is waiting for a new login
    > the screen will blank after a while but some time later
    > the kdm login area (along with clock) will show on the
    > screen. The display is somewhat distorted. The next
    > morning I check the monitor and it was still warm and
    > the monitor never went into standby let along suspend.
    >
    > Does anyone know what else I should be configuring
    > to get this system to suspend the monitor or at least
    > send it into standby.
    >
    > If I remember right the monitor use to power down to
    > the point where the monitor was not warm the next morning.
    > This was under SuSE 8.2
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Terry
    >

    I'm running the same card and driver on 2 boxes, must check that later.
    Section "ServerLayout"
         Identifier "Simple Layout"
         Screen "Screen 1"
         InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
         InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

    EndSection

    Regards
    Sid. 

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