[SDBUG] Re: Monitor dimming

[Matthew Seaman]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 09:37:46PM -0400, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> > There's lots of stuff that might go into XF86Config which isn't
> > mentioned in the automatically generated config file, produced by
> 
> But I meant, in *my* XF86Config there is no mention of the blanktime or
> standby or suspend timings, and yet, after about 5-10 minutes of idle time
> my monitor somehow KNOWS to dim itself.  Where else might I find the cause?

I suspect that XFree86 is just applying its default settings, given
that you haven't told it to do otherwise.

> Is xset the only thing that can make use of DPMS or is there a binary in
> the default / standard / minimum *BSD installation to control it too?

Look at vidcontrol(1) -- specifically the '-t blanktime' option.  You
can go direct to the screen saver on a console screen by hitting
Shift-Pause -- see splash(4).  However whether this involves DPMS
directly or not, I don't know.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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