[Mageia-dev] Desktop monitor powering down

[David Walser]

Frank Griffin wrote:
> On 08/07/2012 01:48 PM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> Try: xset -dpms?
> 
>> Dunno what else would be doing it tho'. Likely related to graphics 
>> card driver tho', so probably worth mentioning what you're using. Col 
> Spot on !  That was it.
> 
> This is a fresh install as of a couple of days ago, using the free ATI 
> driver + nonfree firmware.  Is anyone aware of a change to issue xset 
> +dpms ?  Cos I certainly didn't do it.
> 
> Thanks for figuring this out.  It was driving me batty.

It's not a matter of doing xset +dpms, it's generally enabled by default.  It's a matter of how it's 
configured.  It has three numbers for different levels of powerdown, usually you'll see three 
numbers in the GUI configurators too.  So "xset dpms 0 0 0" would have fixed your problem too.  So 
the question is what is setting your settings to something crazy and why.  I usually set mine to 
xset dpms 0 0 1200 which turns the monitor off after 20 minutes of inactivity.