[TriLUG] Monitor Auto Power Weirdness

[Randall Barlow]

Owen Berry wrote:

>Do you have anything being logged in /var/log/Xorg.0.log when this
>happens? What are your DPMS settings in your xorg.conf? What video card
>are you using? I would assume it's either hardware or configuration
>specific as this doesn't happen to me on my Gentoo box.
>
Well, actually I seem to have solved the problem by editing gdm.conf and 
adding lines to get xscreensaver to be the background process, and then 
adding a .xscreensaver file to /home/gdm/ with the proper power 
management settings.

But to answer your questions, I don't know about the Xorg log, but dpms 
is enabled (since power management does work properly when logged in), 
it's an older nVidia Riva TNT2 Model 64.  So yeah, gdm.conf *seems* to 
have fixed it so far.  Thanks for the reply though!

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Randy Barlow
Research Assistant
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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