Enabling DPMS in new minimalistic xorg.conf?

Jim Cornette fct-cornette at insight.rr.com
Sat Aug 26 12:57:06 UTC 2006


Michel Salim wrote:
> I installed FC6t2 from scratch, and was impressed to see that for the
> first time, my laptop's 1280x768 LCD was configured properly. I could
> not, however, power down the LCD backlight.
> 
> "xset dpms force off" gives an error starting with:
> server does not have extension for dpms option
> xset:  unknown option force
> 
> I notice that Option "dpms" is normally found in the "Monitor" section
> of xorg.conf, however, this entire section is now missing. How do I
> enable DPMS, and should this not be the default? Do I bugzilla on
> system-config-display?
> 
> Thanks,
> 

Was it created at installation with pyxf86config
or after installation with system-config-display?

Either way, it is a regression and should be entered into bugzilla.

Jim




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