make buildworld powers down system

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Fri Dec 2 13:01:04 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 03:28:09 -0500, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 02:06:26 -0500 (EST), doug at safeport.com wrote:
> > > The screen does go into standby and I am not
> > > sure what is controling that, nothing in KDE or Xorg that I set, perhaps
> > a
> > > sysctl setting but I did not see one in the acpi section.
> >
> > This might be a dafault option. You can override it in
> > your /etc/X11/xorg.conf by setting
> >
> >        Option "DPMS" "false"
> >
> > in the section "Monitor" where you define the values
> > for your monitor. I had a similar experience with an
> > 21" CRT Eizo F980 going to sleep unintendedly. :-)
> >
> > --
> > Polytropon
> > Magdeburg, Germany
> > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Another way may be inserting the following lines into ~/.xinitrc :
> 
> xset s off
> xset -dpms

Correct, I also have those in my ~/.xinitrc together
with the xorg.conf setting above. With both settings,
screens shouldn't blank anymore.


-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...


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