Powerdevil does not power off screen

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XiniX Registered Member Posts 217 Karma 1 OS	Powerdevil does not power off screen Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:44 pm As the title says.... Running xset dpms force off powers off the screen as it should, but Powerdevil does not. It _does_ dim the screen, but the backlight remains on regardless how long it has been idle. Can anyone confirm? XiniX, proud to be a member of KDE forums since 2008-Oct.
akoskm Registered Member Posts 135 Karma 0 OS	RE: Powerdevil does not power off screen Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:51 pm showthread.php?tid=28689 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178642 http://yami.googlecode.com/ http://mydailyhash.wordpress.com/
XiniX Registered Member Posts 217 Karma 1 OS	RE: Powerdevil does not power off screen Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:06 pm Thanks, hadn't looked in the bug reports. The forum thread seems to be a different issue though.... XiniX, proud to be a member of KDE forums since 2008-Oct.
cybertaz Registered Member Posts 34 Karma 0	RE: Powerdevil does not power off screen Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:01 am The only way I could get the screen to blank (power off) is to set it in the system settings->Display->power cybertaz, proud to be a member of KDE forums since 2008-Oct.