I want my monitor to turn itself off.

[Once-Ler]

Yup... I want my monitor to turn its self off after a given amount of time when i'm not on my computer.

I'm using caldera2.4
I've updated my kde to 2.1
my xfree86 is 4.03

In my kernel I have under general setup:

Advanced Power Management BIOS support on
Enable PM at boot time on
Make CPU Idle calls when idle on
RTC stores time in GMT

The goal is that after three minutes my monitor powers down with xwindows and some of my apps open.

I've gone under kcontrol-->Power control--> Energy and I've enabled Display engergy saving. I changed it so that all three (stand by, suspend, and power off) were set to 3 minutes. I sat around and after three minutes nothing happened. I went back in and disabled all except the power off after 3 minutes. I sat around and it didn't power off. I'v tried sitting around with kapm running and that didn't do anything. I've run ps aux and i didn't see the apmd running. I've downloaded that and tried to compile it... i ran somethings in it... sat around... no monitor powerdown... i restarted the puter... sat around... no monitor powerdown...

What do i have to do to have my monitor power down after three minutes.

Thanks
-Will


p.s. and yes i know that hitting the big red "off button" on my monitor will power it down...

p.s.s. If any of you know how to get power saving in blackbox as well that would be appreciated.

[Once-Ler]

And yes my monitor is energystar compliant and yes all apm stuff is turned on in the bios... if you don't spot what i'm doing wrong... please tell me how you got all this to work.

Love always,
-Will "the" thril

[DrDebian]

Originally posted by Once-Ler:
What do i have to do to have my monitor power down after three minutes.


Have you tried adding

option "power_saver"

in your /etc/XF86Config in the apropriate places?

[drmbb]

You'll want to turn APM OFF in the BIOS. In Linux, let the kernel alone handle APM and then your KDE time-outs should work.