Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, David E. Young wrote: > > > Greetings. Redhat Linux 7.1, XFree86 4.0.3, NVidia TNT2 (16mb) driving a > > ViewSonic 17PS. DPMS isn't working, despite being configured to do so. > > It worked fine when I was running my old Mach64 and it also worked fine > > when I was using the TNT2 on Windows 2000. I believe my BIOS is properly > > configured; Monitor Off Method is "DPMS". > > For some reason, XFree86 v4 defaults to DPMS disabled, check that you have > a line like: > (**) NV(0): DPMS enabled > in your logfile (often /var/log/XFree86.0.log)...
Brilliant! As you recommended I added the line Option "DPMS" to the Monitor section in XF86Config-4 and DPMS now works like a champ. Thanks a bunch... Cheers, -- ------------------------------------------ David E. Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lisa.sourceforge.net "But all the world understands my language." -- Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
