Bug#397197: xserver-xorg-video-ati: DPMS screen saver does not kick in
On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 21:46 +0100, Robert Siemer wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 02:05:27PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> > One thing to watch out for is that the X server's ACPI support is known
> > to prevent DPMS in some cases, this was just recently fixed upstream.
>
> Well, this is not known to me. Could you point me to that fix?
Commit 809e2841aaa54662a42498aacec558bc813bba1c on master and
66b2c9bd2dddf8f8410147ebf1de7a6c045d8249 on server-1.2-branch in the
xserver repo.
> > If disabling ACPI in the X server doesn't work around this, please provide
> > full config and log files.
>
> Could you please be more specific? I never ever heard of X server ACPI
> support. No man page (Xserver, Xorg, xorg.conf, ati, radeon, r128) is
> mentioning ACPI (apart from "radeon", but "BIOSHotkeys" does not apply
> here).
Yes, this is a known deficiency of the documentation. You can try Option
"NoPM" in Section "ServerFlags" (xorg.conf manpage) or the -noacpi
command line switch.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com
Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
Reply to: