Monitor won't turn off!!!

[tantrik]

Hi friends,

I am having a problem which I described in one of my earlier post. But did not get a proper solution. The problem is that my monitor does not turn off even if I keep the Power off after option at 1 or 2 minutes. I tried Power off after option at 10 minutes and more. But the monitor does not turn off. I tried many other kde based distros before, and in those distros that Power off after option works at 1 or 2 minutes or at any time I select. I want to save power by keeping my monitor turn off while it is idle or just listening to music or downloading something. At those times my monitor won't be needed.

My monitor switch is out of order hence literally my monitor is always on. Using the Power off after option is the only way I have. Give me some suggestions or any alternative ways to turn off my monitor other than the KDesktop =>Display Settings => Power Control option.

Thanks in advance.

[T6]

sorry for saying the obvious,not want to be ride

when i am away from my pc, i always press the power button in the monitor, no software will replace me saving lots of energy since the monitor is still on when you leave in the state you described

also i never use any screensaver

[marian]

Exactly. If you don't need your monitor to be on for a longer time then turn it off by its power button.

[ElCuervo]

You may want to look at any power options in the BIOS to see if there's anything disabled there, especially ACPI.

I don't want to be rude, either, but to those who suggest turning off the monitor, there is this in the original post:

My monitor switch is out of order hence literally my monitor is always on.

[T6]

"I don't want to be rude, either"

and you are not, you are right about this, still, turn off the monitor is the best solution

in this case i'm almost sure it is a crt monitor so the power consumption is even bigger so better fix the damage on it or just replace it whit a lcd monitor

[marian]

My monitor switch is out of order hence literally my monitor is always on.

Just wonder how could I overlook this. 

I use Fn+F7 to turn off lcd on my laptop but that's not your case since you have a regular PC with monitor. 
If you have KDE4 in System settings is a power control which have "Settings for display power management".
Just tried and it works for me. After 1 minute it turned off my lcd.

But you probably use KDE3 since you wrote:

KDesktop =>Display Settings => Power Control  option

[trustytrev]

Hello,
      Did you sort your problem out?I found a computer just restarted when trying to shut it down and that turned out to be caused by power saving settings in the bios.It is recommended all power saving options in the bios are disabled as linux can do a better job, but can be overridden by settings in the bios.
trustytrev.