if your card can do it, on most monitors changing one (or two) of the sync frequncies to 0 turns off the monitor to a "stand by" mode (allmost off) some bios chips (green ones) can do it however you have to disable your screen saver (xlock) and use xset s xxx instead. ortal -- Ortal Alpert <ortal@batata.fh.huji.ac.il>