Monitor powerdown after timeout no longer works since the last updates to 10-04.4 LTS

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Thu Aug 30 15:04:26 UTC 2012


On Thursday 30 August 2012 11:01:05 Basil Chupin did opine:

> On 30/08/12 23:58, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings all;
> > 
> > And I cannot find an obvious place to set that in the screensaver
> > prefs.
> > 
> > This is at least tripling the use of the CCFL lamp in my SamSung
> > BW-205 on an nvidia card running the nouveau driver.
> > 
> > Cheers, Gene
> 
> I think you will find it under Power Management and not the Screensaver.
> 
> BC

The power managements wording, talking about putting it to sleep, is 
disingenuous at best.  I just set the saver to come on in 5, and the sleep 
in 10, so we'll see shortly.

Cheers, Gene
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