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jediperry
October 13th, 2002, 12:55 PM
I have been finding with XP that if the monitor is turned off by girder then windows power saving will turn it back on and leave it on. The behaviour is a bit random though so I will experiment with this a bit.
mattwire
October 13th, 2002, 12:55 PM
I appear to be having trouble with the monitor apm plugin.
The 'monitor on' function fails (most but not all of the time) when the system has turned the monitor off.
Eg.
1. Use girder: 'monitor off'.
2. System 'monitor off' timeout occurs and monitor remains in monitor off state.
3. Use girder: 'monitor on' - no response (girder IS executing the command). Mouse/keyboard will bring monitor straight back on still.

'Monitor on' works until the system 'monitor off' timeout occurs.

This is with Girder 3.1/W2Ksp2
mitko
October 13th, 2002, 12:55 PM
I have experienced the similar problem: When the monitor is turned off (either with Girder or by power saveing) and then I turn it on with Girder it never turns off again by the power saving. I didn't find the reason but found a workaround: I use mose move (1pix left and then 1pix back right) to turn the monitor ON.

It works perfect for me
:smile:
gkour
October 13th, 2002, 12:55 PM
I use mitko's solution too. And It's not only with the APM plugin. The same thing happens when you use the commands in the O.S tab too.
Promixis
October 18th, 2002, 07:39 AM
I am also having the same problem...

I want the monitor to wake up to display callerid info. Monitor ON turns it on for a split second and then it turns off!

Monitor off turns it off for a second and then it turns back on.

Must be a better way! :)

Mike
Ron
October 18th, 2002, 07:40 AM
are you using the keyboard to trigger this event ? ( possibly F5 ? )
Promixis
October 18th, 2002, 08:24 AM
No, using a internet event server or a serial event to try and turn on a monitor.
Ron
October 18th, 2002, 08:30 AM
a serial event might pull the computer out of APM mode....
Promixis
October 18th, 2002, 08:42 AM
I think I have that off in my BIOS...

The mouse move trick works well. I would prefer to use the system call for monitor on but it seems that this is compicated. It seems you can't even query windows if the monitor is on or off!.

Oh well, will stick with mouse move.

Thanks