On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, David E. Young wrote:
> > The "nv" driver offloads
> > all power mangement issues to the core vgaHWDPMS code in XFree86.
> > If properly configured (I don't know what the correct XF86Config
> > syntax is now-a-days) it should offer all that the core code
> > can, which is probably just On and Off. I don't think there's
> > a basic VGA way to do Standby or Suspend.
>
> Well, "Off" would be fine; however, it doesn't work either. Issuing 'xset
> dpms force off' has no effect, assuming I'm going that right.
That works for me with XFree86 CVS. Maybe the vgaHWDPMS didn't
support it in 4.0.3 or maybe the "nv" driver wasn't using it back then.
Maybe I can fix it for 4.2.0 if I can convince people this is a
bugfix rather than a feature. We already passed the 4.2.0
feature freeze.
Mark.
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