Re: RH7.0 Use Power Management stopped working.

[Jan Houtsma <jan houtsma net>]

On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 07:11:01AM -0700, John Kennedy wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 10:44:30AM +0200, Jan Houtsma wrote:
> > Before (RH6.2) it worked fine. Now on the exact same computer after
> > a clean install of RH7.0/Workstation/Gnome (XFree86-4.0.1-1) my monitor
> > doesn't power off anymore after enabling it in Gnome Control Panel.
> 
>   As far as I can tell, this is an XFree86-4.0.x software issue.
> I upgraded from -3.x to -4.x and lost DPMS Energy Start features
> immediately.  I don't know of a workaround.
> 
>   I can't get it to work with the xset commands either, so I don't
> think this is a GNOME issue at all.
> 

yes i agree. I thought maybe it was a gnome-X4 incompatability issue.
But i tried all 'xset dpms force [standby|suspend|off]' commands and 
neither works. So yes i guess its an X4 issue.

jan