problem with power saving monitor

[alphaace]

Hi,

My monitor no longer shuts off after the appropriate amount of time. I've gone to the Power Profiles page and checked that I am under the correct profile ("performance") and that Screen Energy Switching says shut off after 25 minutes. However, it just goes to the screen saver and never powers down. It used to power down (about a week or so ago) but for some reason has stopped.

Thanks for your help!

[maxlinux]

Hi,

My monitor no longer shuts off after the appropriate amount of time. I've gone to the Power Profiles page and checked that I am under the correct profile ("performance") and that Screen Energy Switching says shut off after 25 minutes. However, it just goes to the screen saver and never powers down. It used to power down (about a week or so ago) but for some reason has stopped.

Thanks for your help!

None of my monitors have ever gone to sleep after i reboot, i have to go to power profiles page and play with the settings to activate it again.

[pirate]

this fixed this problem for me..

[alphaace]

Hi,

This worked, thanks! What exactly did I disable though?

[brianp124]

What exactly did I disable though?

xset -dpms turns off the dpms feature.  By commenting the line out dpms remains unchanged  ie ON.  I suppose you might say you disabled the disabling

For more on dpms via xset, open a terminal and take a look at xset --help

[ternor]

Wouldn't one also comment out the line "xset s off"?  That line does not stop my screen saver working.

I have had the same problem.  Thanks for the solution.