Screen power saving

[Kenny Gow]

On 11/26/05, Eric Tanguy <eric.tanguy at univ-nantes.fr> wrote:
> Le samedi 26 novembre 2005 à 17:29 +1030, Tim a écrit :
> > On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 19:46 +0100, Eric Tanguy wrote:
> > > I have dell machines which don't have bios parameters to suspend
> > > screen so i tried to put some values in /etc/X11/xorg.conf but the
> > > system does not seem to take care of it and the screens are on 24h a
> > > day.
> >
> > Post your xorg.conf file for others to comment on it.
> >
> OK here is :
> # XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config
>

>         Option      "dpms" "true"

In the Monitor section of my xorg.conf, my DPMS line
looks like this:

        Option      "DPMS"

If I am logged in, the xscreensaver program takes care of
blanking and suspending my monitor.

If my computer is at the graphical login screen, then this
section of my xorg.conf takes care of screen blanking,

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option      "BlankTime" "10"
        Option      "StandbyTime" "0"
        Option      "SuspendTime" "15"
        Option      "OffTime" "0"
EndSection

See the man page for xorg.conf to get definitions of these
options.

--Kenny