blank screen doesn't turn of LCD light

[Rodney Gordon II]

On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 09:25:51AM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> I've got FC2 on a Dell D400 laptop, and have set the screen saver
> to blank screen only; and although the screen goes blank, the
> LCD backlight remains on. I can manuallly turn the light off with
> 
>     xset dpms force off
> 
> Is there any way I can get this to happen automatically?

Make sure in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf you have a line in your 'Section
"Monitor"' area that reads 'Option "dpms"'

Try that out..
-r
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