NVIDIA driver and DPMS: backlight never switches off

[Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu]

On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 20:45 +0000, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> Yes, perhaps. How did you configure DPMS? What I have is this in my
> xorg.conf:
> 
> In the "Monitor" section:
> 
>         Option "DPMS" "true"

Yep, that's what I have:

Option "dpms" "true"

> and in the "Device" section:
> 
>         Option "DPMS"
> 
> (This last bit is apparently required by the NVIDIA driver.)

Really?  I don't use it in the Device section and haven't had a problem.
Is this documented in the README.txt for the driver from NVIDIA?

> If you are using the latest 8178
> driver maybe I should try building an rpm of it for my kernel from
> Livna's src rpm and trying again. Are you using 8178?

Yes, I'm using the latest release from NVIDIA.  I don't use the Livna
packages.

Regards,

Ranbir

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