why is gdm ignoring dpms

[François Patte]

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Le 22/03/2009 19:47, Mike Cloaked a écrit :
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> Tom Horsley-3 wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:59:35 +0100
>> François Patte wrote:
>>
>>> But gdm refuses to apply this. Why.
>> All that stuff is controlled by the gnome-settings-daemon started
>> by user "gdm" who is the user running the gdm login screen.
>> Somehow (not at all sure how) you need to influence the
>> settings for user gdm.
>>
>> I was able to set the screen DPI this way by copying my own
>> ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/font_rendering directory (after I set
>> my own DPI) to ~gdm/.gconf/desktop/gnome then chowning
>> everything I copied to gdm:gdm. Perhaps the power manager
>> settings are down in the ~/.gconf directory somewhere as well
>> and a similar technique might work?
>>
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> 
> The machine in question is not Intel Integrated graphics by any chance is
> it?  If so I had this problem also!  You will see another thread on this
> topic where my only solution was to get a new graphics card!  Still I would
> be interested to know if your machine has onboard graphics?

No! I have an Nvidia graphic card: GeForce 7800 GTX and run the whole
akmod stuff for nvidia:

xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-180.29-1.fc10.i386
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-180.29-1.fc10.i386
kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686-180.29-1.fc10.1.i686
akmod-nvidia-180.29-1.fc10.i686

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François Patte
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Université Paris Descartes
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http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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