DPMS stopped to work with SuSE 10.1

[Kevin Shanahan]

On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 06:00:49PM +0200, Stefan Müller wrote:
> the machine switches off the display, but it is switched on again after
> five seconds. For some reason the machine is keept awake.

It's probably this bug:
  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5665

You can work around it by adding "-noacpi" to the X command line. You
might have to edit gdm.conf or something if that's what you're using.

Regards,
Kevin.