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MillTek

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Registered: 2005-01-30

Posts: 442

E17 - problem with power management.

Hi,
I'm running E17 (compiled from CVS) and for the past several months I have noticed that the DPMS setting in my xorg.conf is pretty much ingored/over-ridden by something.  I have two LCD monitors and I am concerned about burn-in because sometimes they never turn off after the pre-set time.  The only way I can get them to co-operate is to issue a 'xset dpms 60' in a terminal window.

Here's the portion of my xorg.conf;

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "ViewSonic VA912-3SERIES"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 82.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 85.0
    Option         "DPMS" "true"
    Option "UseEdidDpi" "false"
    DisplaySize    677 270
    # Energy Saver settings

# Time in minutes
    Option "StandbyTime"  "15"
    Option "SuspendTime"  "20"
    Option "OffTime" "25"

EndSection

I have also ensured that the E17 configuration is set to 15 minutes as well.

Can anyone help?

Jim

elgatofelix

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From: Chile

Registered: 2007-07-03

Posts: 137

Re: E17 - problem with power management.

You can install xscrensaver and launch it at start of e17. It has a gui to set the autostarted apps (there is no plain text conf files in e17 ) and use the client xscreensaver-demo to adjust your options

>pacman -S xscreensaver

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Are u listening?

iggy

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From: Germany, L.E. - Leipzig

Registered: 2004-10-17

Posts: 367

Re: E17 - problem with power management.

or you just use the "power management" option in the "enlightenment configuration->Screen" to adjust the dpms settings...

[EDIT] oh, see you set the time already in the e17 configuration.

Last edited by iggy (2007-07-17 23:00:41)

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sorry for my bad english