Enabling DPMS in new minimalistic xorg.conf?

[Michel Salim]

I installed FC6t2 from scratch, and was impressed to see that for the
first time, my laptop's 1280x768 LCD was configured properly. I could
not, however, power down the LCD backlight.

"xset dpms force off" gives an error starting with:
server does not have extension for dpms option
xset:  unknown option force

I notice that Option "dpms" is normally found in the "Monitor" section
of xorg.conf, however, this entire section is now missing. How do I
enable DPMS, and should this not be the default? Do I bugzilla on
system-config-display?

Thanks,

[Jim Cornette]

Michel Salim wrote:
> I installed FC6t2 from scratch, and was impressed to see that for the
> first time, my laptop's 1280x768 LCD was configured properly. I could
> not, however, power down the LCD backlight.
>
> "xset dpms force off" gives an error starting with:
> server does not have extension for dpms option
> xset:  unknown option force
>
> I notice that Option "dpms" is normally found in the "Monitor" section
> of xorg.conf, however, this entire section is now missing. How do I
> enable DPMS, and should this not be the default? Do I bugzilla on
> system-config-display?
>
> Thanks,

Was it created at installation with pyxf86config
or after installation with system-config-display?

Either way, it is a regression and should be entered into bugzilla.

Jim

[Michel Salim]

On 8/26/06, Jim Cornette  wrote:
> Was it created at installation with pyxf86config
> or after installation with system-config-display?

Both. And it's still the same with fc6test3 - bugzilla'ed:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206549

I'm guessing it's one of the modules that pyxf86config does not add -
one of the following (compared to the xorg.conf generated by Xorg
-configure):

dbe xtrap dri vnc extmod record glx

(Probably dbe, dri or glx?)