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

[Colin Law]

On 30 August 2012 16:04, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> 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.

You may approve of the fact that on Quantal the wording is "Turn
screen off when inactive for:" with a dropdown list to select the
time.

Colin