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| 02:06.01 | foobar | question, why am I banned from #debian ? |
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| 15:23.44 | moore | hi all... looking for a quick answer, hopefully. is there any way to completely shut off the monitor on an imac g4 flowerpot running debian testing and xfce 4.6.2? i've already tried using the power manager for xfce, but it turns my screen yellow and orange, not off. |
| 15:24.40 | Bor_Ed | xset dpms force off <<-- spell might work |
| 15:25.54 | moore | @bor_ed: could i use that in conjunction with xscreensaver; i.e., could i call that command after a set time? |
| 15:26.43 | Bor_Ed | I guess... I just set screen off with that command when I'm not at the box... iirc xscreensaver allows commands to be entered too |
| 15:28.12 | moore | thanks so much, bor_ed... i'll test this is the next few minutes and post back results. i've had posts sitting in both the debian and ubuntu fora for a few days now and no hits; i should've just come here! |
| 15:28.35 | moore | and, uh, how would i bring it back? |
| 15:29.39 | Bor_Ed | hit any key... |
| 15:29.54 | moore | excellent... i'll test this now. |
| 15:34.45 | moore | sorry, bor_ed, no dice... at first it simply put one vertical and horizontal column of orange and now it isn't doing anything. |
| 15:35.46 | Bor_Ed | hmm... that's interesting... what gfx chip is in the box and what driver / color depth you use in it? |
| 15:39.06 | moore | lspci tells me VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] |
| 15:40.49 | Bor_Ed | you're using vesa or svga driver? |
| 15:41.48 | Bor_Ed | off to disassemble an engine... more or less afk but dropping by every now and then |
| 15:42.57 | moore | lspci -v doesn't tell me |
| 15:43.19 | Bor_Ed | <PROTECTED> |
| 15:46.32 | moore | there's a lot about loading x.org vesa driver and something about my specific nVidia GeForce MX/MX 400, but i'm not too sure what i'm looking for in all those lines... |
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| 16:20.35 | Bor_Ed | you could try to use svga driver instead if the current is 'vesa' |
| 16:21.24 | moore | would that involve some xorg.conf editing? |
| 16:28.11 | moore | and i don't know if this helps explain anything, but xserver-xorg-vesa isn't even installed, so.... |
| 16:37.49 | moore | okay, so specifying driver "nv" in xorg.conf did nothing and driver "vga" broke my x. |
| 16:49.36 | Bor_Ed | xorg.conf editing... yup |
| 16:49.59 | moore | as i wrote, done and no dice. |
| 16:52.06 | Bor_Ed | bugger that |
| 16:54.29 | moore | truer words have ne'er been written. |
| 16:54.40 | Bor_Ed | :) |
| 16:55.05 | moore | could it be a bug with xserver and nvidia? |
| 16:56.01 | Bor_Ed | nvidia isn't too happy on free software... that's the main reason, though might be workable around with some research |
| 16:57.25 | moore | like i wrote before, this has been a festering issue. thanks for all your help. perhaps i'll be able to report back with some fix at a later date to help some other bloke. |
| 16:58.19 | Bor_Ed | no problem and hopefully you get the issue solved |
| 16:59.12 | moore | thanks, again. |
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