monitor powersaving

[Martin (KDE)]

Am Montag, 14. September 2009 schrieb Martin (KDE):
> Hallo
> 
> since my upgrade from F10 to F11 the monitor power saving no longer
> works with KDE (I never have tested it with other DEs). Neither
>  power saving settings in system advanced configuration nor the
>  usual settings in the display config changes anything. Are there
>  any special settings to get DPMS working again? Sadly enough, KDE
>  4.3 dos not make any difference.

To answer my own mail: it is a bug in the kernel (may be ati module). 
setting nomodeset as kernel start option the dpms is running again. 
This bug is already listed at bugzilla, for those wo are interested: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508558

Martin

> 
> Martin