On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Well, it took about 2 seconds to find the answer at the gnome website. I'm > just trying it now. I don't seem to have the xscreensaver daemon running > by default; that's probably key... > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53860 > > This is not a bug, as it turns out, just a feature with > difficult-to-find documentation :) > > Xscreensaver 3.32 comes with gnome 1.4 from Ximian. In the > xscreensaver changelog for (I think) version 1.30, it explicitly > states that xscreensaver takes over all DPMS control. > > I happened upon the easy way to fix my DPMS control by executing the > Xscreensaver graphical control program: > xscreensaver-command -prefs
I still can't get DPMS to work. I turned on debug output in xscreensaver, and now when the screen blanks I get the message: "xscreensaver: X reports monitor is shut down; not launching a hack" So no I'm thinking maybe there is a problem with X after all. ...RickM...
