API to turn off the display
Melvyn Sopacua
freebsd-current at webteckies.org
Fri Jan 30 16:24:15 PST 2004
On Friday 30 January 2004 01:50, James Green wrote:
> It should work in both. (I run X via both gdm and startx) It will also
> work from the console when X is not running as the xset commands just
> timeout. The DPMS calls stop it from screwing up your display in X.
>
> Try 'xset dpms force off' as the user you are logged in as (i.e. not
> root) If that does not turn off the display but blanks it, you probably
> need to look at drivers for Xfree that fully support DPMS for your card.
It does nothing at all and the card is NVidia GeForce 4200 Go. I had to tweak
the settings for this alternate resolution also, and exiting X also creates a
screwed up console with vertical lines.
I've tested the snapshot about a month ago with the same results, so I'll
follow this up with the XFree86 guys.
--
Melvyn
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