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BassKozz wrote: > I've had this issue since Hardy (8.04), and each upgrade (intrepid and now > jaunty) I've been crossing my fingers and hoping for a fix but it has not > come :( > > Description: I have a dual-monitor setup and ever since I switched over > from "Separate X-Sessions" to "TwinView" the monitors won't go into sleep > mode. > My video card is: nVIDIA GeForce 8600GT and I am using the restricted > drivers v180.44 > Both monitors are hooked up to that videocard, however one of them is run > thru a KVM (because I use one of my monitors to work on multiple computers). > Also should be noted I am using 64bit version of Ubuntu Desktop, of which I > just upgraded to Jaunty. The KVM is probably interrupting X's auto-detection of the DPMS capability of the monitor. You can try adding Option "DPMS" "True" in both the device and monitor sections of your xorg.conf, or running: xset +dpms after you log in. HTH, Matt
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