On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 03:22:52PM -0600, Jeff Lessem wrote: > In your message of: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:22:26 PDT, you write: > >% man xset > > > > -dpms The -dpms option disables DPMS (Energy Star) > > features. > > > > +dpms The +dpms option enables DPMS (Energy Star) > > Thanks for the response, but unfortunately it is a bit more complex > than that. xset +dpms runs without an error, but xset q continues to > report "not capable of DPMS" and something like xset dpms force off > will fail with an error.
The magic thingy you need is in your XF86Config file, add Option "DPMS" "on" to your Monitor section. Unfortunately, XFree 4's documentation is woefully...lacking. I didn't know this (not for lack of trying) until someone had mentioned it in passing on this list. -- Joshua Shagam /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / No HTML/RTF in email www.cs.nmsu.edu/~joshagam X No Word docs in email mp3.com/fluffyporcupine / \ Respect for open standards