Monitor doesn't turn go into powersave

[Bob Goodwin]

On 29/12/09 07:14, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> You did not specify "nomodeset". You specified "--nomodeset". Remove 
> the dashes.
>
>

Ok, I had another go at it, let the computer run that way while I had 
some breakfast, at least half an hour, but it did not blank the screen.

    title Omega 12.1 Fedora Remix (2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64)
         root (hd0,0)
         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 ro
    root=/dev/mapper/vg_box6-lv_root noiswmd LANG=en_US.UTF-8
    SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us nomodeset
         initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64.img

Bob