[TriLUG] Monitor Auto Power Weirdness

[Owen Berry]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:03:55AM -0500, Randall Barlow wrote:
> 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!
> 

Great! Would you mind posting what you did to gdm.conf? I'm interested.

Thanks,
Owen