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starfox

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Registered: 2010-04-24

Posts: 16

Inspiron screen turns white -- not black??

I have a Dell Inspiron 9400 with a newly installed GeForce Go 7900 GS card running 2.6.33-ARCH and xfce4. Instead of turning off the screen when the power manager says to, the screen goes bright white. Upon further inspection, I notice that "vbetool dpms off" and "xset dpms force off" also turn the screen white.

I don't care how the screen gets turned off (using a script or keybindings is fine), I just want to be able to turn the screen off when I leave my desk.

Here's my xorg.conf file, generated by nvidia-config:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "SynapticsTouchpad" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "record"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "dri2"
    Load           "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "SynapticsTouchpad"
    Driver         "synaptics"
    Option         "AlwaysCore" "true"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto-dev"
    Option         "SHMConfig" "false"
    Option         "LeftEdge" "1700"
    Option         "Right Edge" "5300"
    Option         "Top Edge" "1700"
    Option         "BottomEdge" "4200"
    Option         "FingerLow" "25"
    Option         "FingerHigh" "30"
    Option         "MaxTapTime" "180"
    Option         "VertEdgeScroll" "true"
    Option         "HorizEdgeScroll" "true"
    Option         "CornerCoasting" "true"
    Option         "CoastingSpeed" "0.30"
    Option         "VertScrollDelta" "100"
    Option         "HorizScrollDelta" "100"
    Option         "MinSpeed" "0.10"
    Option         "MaxSpeed" "0.60"
    Option         "AccelFactor" "0.0020"
    Option         "VertTwoFingerScroll" "true"
    Option         "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "true"
    Option         "TapButton1" "1"
    Option         "TapButton2" "2"
    Option         "TapButton3" "3"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName      "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"

    # AC settings:
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName      "G71 [GeForce Go 7900 GS]"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Card0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    Option         "RegistryDwords" "PowerMizerLevelAC=0x1"
    # Battery settings:
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Thanks for any help you may be able to provide!

p.s. This was posted in the Newbie Section here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=99250 But I think I need more specific help. I can't seem to find anyone who has had this problem. Others have complained of the screen not going off when the lid is closed, or the backlight not going off, or the screen not coming back after suspend. Although I have these problems, they are not my main concern. This problem also occurs in Ubuntu and I plan on trying Windows XP this weekend.