Re: dpms problems with X 4?
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:06:18AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 07:33:08PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> > Yea, think this is something with the X screensaver. X screensaver
> > probably kicks on at 10 minutes, and doesn't go to Standby 'til 30
> > minutes. Seems the two need to get in sync...
>
> That should not be the case. According to the xscreesaver man page,
> xscreensaver should notice when the X server has kicked in DPMS and shut
> the monitor off. It doesn't manipulate dpms at all. See the "POWER
> MANAGEMENT" section of the man page.
>
> One very odd thing is the output that 'xset q' gives during this whole
> process. Say I first do 'xset dpms 60 300 600' followed by 'xset q' I
> see what I expect:
> DPMS (Energy Star):
> Standby: 60 Suspend: 300 Off: 600
> DPMS is Enabled
> Monitor is Off
>
> However, a few minutes later, 'xset q' gives totally different results:
> DPMS (Energy Star):
> Standby: 10 Suspend: 10 Off: 10
> DPMS is Disabled
There was a thread about this a week or 2 ago, & it was xscreensaver
that was causing dpms to be disable. I think Karsten file a bug
against xscreensaver.
John
>
> I could understand if I was running something like GNOME or KDE that
> they might want to manage DPMS on their own, and could screw up some of
> my settings, but I'm not using them. The only clients are xscreensaver,
> some Eterms, Window Maker, xconsole, and xset.
>
> This strikes me as strange enough to possibly warrant a trip out of the
> comfy confines of the familiar Debian lists and into the unexplored
> region of the XFree86 mailing lists. 8^)
>
> noah
>
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