My xorg.conf

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nmahadkar

I have followed the instructions in the handbook but I cannot seem to find my current xorg.conf file. The /etc/X11/ & the /usr/local/etc/X11 are both empty. I am trying to get my monitor to turn off after 5 mins. I believe the +dpms needs to be set in order to do this. What should I do to find my current config.
 
The current modern versions of Xorg don't need it. It will happily use automatically found settings.

Try creating it as indicated in the handbook.
 
I have tried creating it but the problem is that new one does not work. So I wanted to look and the current one to configure the old. Is there anything else I can do to put my monitor to sleep?
 
Humm....Thats odd. Now that you mention it. I have had to install 3 times and it is only this last install that does not automatically sleep the monitor. What else can I do?
 
Verify in /var/log/Xorg.0.log that it's indeed turned on. Also note that your monitor must support it.
 
The monitor does support it

Code: 
[[nmahadkar@freebsh /dev]$ more /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep DPMS
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(II) RADEON(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend Off
(II) RADEON(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend Off
(==) RADEON(0): DPMS enabled
(II) RADEON(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend Off
(II) RADEON(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend Off
(II) RADEON(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend Off
(II) RADEON(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend Off
(II) RADEON(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend Off
(II) RADEON(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend Off
(II) RADEON(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend Off
(II) RADEON(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend Off
(II) RADEON(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend Off
(II) RADEON(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend Off
(II) RADEON(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend Off

This is the content of the log. Does it me it is set not to turn off?
 
You can use $ xset q in a shell to see what the current dpms settings are. And you can use xset to change those settings - see the man page for xset(1).
 
That did the trick thank you. I was set to not turn off
Code: 
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 0    Suspend: 0    Off: 0
  DPMS is Enabled
  Monitor is On

Code: 
xset 0 30 60

Set the suspend to 30 seconds and the off to 60.
 
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