Monitor does not go into standby when in X

Steven Stern subscribed-lists at sterndata.com
Thu Aug 27 19:21:05 UTC 2009


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On 08/27/2009 02:09 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote:
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> Steven Stern wrote:
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>> I had some time this morning, so after getting everything up2date, I
>> tried this:
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>> 1.  Rebooted into level3.  Sat at the login prompt for about 5 minutes
>> and watched my monitor go into standby.  Cool.  So the system *can* do it.
>>
>> 2.  Logged in and waited a while.  Monitor went into standby again.  So,
>> it's not a matter of being logged in.
>>
>> 3.  Rebooted into level5.  Logged in.  Waited 45 minutes.  Screen saver
>> comes on, then screen goes blank, but the monitor power button is green,
>> not yellow.
>>
>> It appears that either X or gnome-power-manager is just refusing to put
>> the monitor into standby.
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> 
> It would be really useful if you said which version of Fedora you are using!
> 
> Anyway if it is F11 there are known issues with X and going into standby and
> there is an update that may help you. 
> If you want to try the update in F11 then as root do:
> yum --enablerepo updates-testing update xorg-x11-server-Xorg
> 
> This fixed similar issues that I had using F11 in one machine.

Yes, Fedora 11.  I'm going to try the "nomodeset" parm first, then I'll
try your suggestion.

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  Steve
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