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bertran

New Member

Registered: 2014-04-23

Posts: 8

External monitor will not come out of power save mode.

Hello everybody!  New to crunchbang, love it; the first issue I've not resolved through man files and search engine is:

I've a Dell Latitude D620 laptop with nvidia drivers installed.  I have a Dell 1907FPc monitor with both VGA and DVI connectors.  I set up dual monitors with the Screen Layout Editor, apply the layout, and the external monitor immediately is in power save mode.  When I fiddle with the settings buttons on the monitor it displays a helpful message saying that it is in power save mode and that I should press any key on the PC, which has no effect.

When I type in:

david@aush:~$ xrandr --output VGA --auto

I get:

warning: output VGA not found; ignoring

whether the external monitor is set as active in the Screen Layout Editor or not.

The same monitor works fine with crunchbang on another laptop, a Toshiba.

From this link and others like it I gather that Dell monitors have some internal power save feature that maybe isn't working right out of the box with crunchbang & this hardware, but I don't have the expertise to diagnose.  What should I do?

DCBU

New Member

Registered: 2014-04-22

Posts: 9

Re: External monitor will not come out of power save mode.

did you try Fn + F8

bertran

New Member

Registered: 2014-04-23

Posts: 8

Re: External monitor will not come out of power save mode.

Yes, to no avail.