this link has a patch that enables DPMS on Radeon LCD panels. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300387&aid=542220&group_id=387
found it here: http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/680/0/8359089/ Alex On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Stuart Anderson wrote: > On 21 Dec 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > > > On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 16:09, Nate Pearlstein wrote: > > > > > 1. DPMS doesn't work. I looked in the source and it seems that DPMS > > > only gets turned on if connected to a CRT. Why shouldn't this work for > > > a flatpanel? > > > > Why should it? ;) I think DPMS was conceived for CRTs so I wouldn't > > expect it to apply to flat panels naturally. > > I had notice the same thing int he ATI driver. On my laptop, Windows can > completely shutdown the LCD screen, but under X, it doesn't. It seems > perfectly reasonable for DPMS to also apply to LCDs, though the actual > energy savings might be less. > I think the corresponding code is simply not implemented. Because the LCD (and backlight) on my Rage Mobility notebook is turned off when I use external monitor. So X knows how to turn it off, just does not do it for DPMS. Vladimir Dergachev __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
