Monitor does not go into standby when in X

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Thu Aug 27 17:46:38 UTC 2009


On 09-08-27 12:25:06, Steven Stern wrote:
 ...
> It appears that either X or gnome-power-manager is just refusing to
> put the monitor into standby.
> 
> How do I get Fedora / Gnome / X to use power-saving modes for monitor
> standby?

If, from X, `xset dpms force suspend ; sleep 10 ; xset dpms force on` 
doesn't suspend your display, try booting without Kernel Modesetting 
by appending "nomodeset" to the kernel command line.

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