Monitors and Energy Star

[Jerry Feldman]

I installed a new monitor on Saturday to replace my aging Digital 17" 
monitor with the diverging colors. I had the old monitor shutting down 
after 30 mins. However, the new monitor does not shut down. Both are energy 
star compliant. 

I made no changes in the BIOS, and currently DPMS is set to off (as it was 
before I changed monitors). 

I am using KDE. I looked through the KDE control panel and I did not see 
anything interesting. 

As I mentioned, other than the changes to XF86.config to support the new 
monitor, nothing changed. 

Should I turn DPMS on?
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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