Steven Stern wrote: > > > I had some time this morning, so after getting everything up2date, I > tried this: > > 1. Rebooted into level3. Sat at the login prompt for about 5 minutes > and watched my monitor go into standby. Cool. So the system *can* do it. > > 2. Logged in and waited a while. Monitor went into standby again. So, > it's not a matter of being logged in. > > 3. Rebooted into level5. Logged in. Waited 45 minutes. Screen saver > comes on, then screen goes blank, but the monitor power button is green, > not yellow. > > It appears that either X or gnome-power-manager is just refusing to put > the monitor into standby. > > It would be really useful if you said which version of Fedora you are using! Anyway if it is F11 there are known issues with X and going into standby and there is an update that may help you. If you want to try the update in F11 then as root do: yum --enablerepo updates-testing update xorg-x11-server-Xorg This fixed similar issues that I had using F11 in one machine. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Monitor-does-not-go-into-standby-when-in-X-tp25175468p25178132.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
