Bug#397197: xserver-xorg-video-ati: DPMS screen saver does not kick in
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 10:44:15PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> About 6 months ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding DPMS
> not kicking automatically as expected. Did you reproduce this problem
> recently? With latest xserver-xorg-core in unstable? Xserver 1.3 has
> been there for a while, and the bug was expected to be fixed in Xserver 1.2.
I do remember very well, because I still have problems with this. I also
wanted to update the bug report but did not try everything I had in mind...
What I can say so far:
-I havn't rebooted since month, I have 1.3.0 installed (X -version), but 7.1.1
seems to be running at the moment (/var/log/Xorg.0.log)...
-you recommended using 'Option "NoPM"' which showed up a new bug while not
resolving the old and leaves me with a new question:
+What does Power Managment has to do the DPMS timer or the input event
management?
+DPMS still does not kick in reliable
+The DPMS "XxxTime" Options in xorg.conf got interpreted in hours instead
of minutes; example: I have StandbyTime set to 8, after the start of X a
"xset q" showed a "Standby: 28800" (which are 8 hours in seconds)
-once corrected with "xset dpms 480 600 3000", DPMS does usually not work.
I now formed a habit to run "xset dpms force suspend" before going into the
kitchen... After doing so once, DPMS eventually works three or four times on
it's own, but stops doing so later
I will try 1.3.0 and also switching off ACPI for the whole kernel (and removing
NoPM from xorg.conf)... but probably not before July (I've exams... :-)
Thank you!
Robert
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