Bug#566870: xserver-xorg: gnome-power-manager complains about broken IDLETIME counter
tags 566870 -patch
thank you
Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg
> Version: 1:7.5+2
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
> Since this morning, gnome-power-manager has put an alert in my notification
> area with this text:
>
> Session active, not inhibited, screen idle.
> If you can see this text, your display server is broken and
> you should contact your distributor.
> Please see http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/08/17/gnome-power-manager-and-blanking-removal-of-bodges/
> for more information.
>
> At the cited URL, there is an article explaining that the IDLETIME counter
> should not be reset when the DPMS state changes, and offering two patches
> to be applied to the X server:
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/patch/?id=db568f9eabf3450d8a023597ff007df355b13ea8
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/patch/?id=6b5978dcf1f7ac3ecc2f22df06f7000f360e2066
>
> (I'm a little confused, though, because the article is from August 2009
> and claims that these patches have been applied to upstream X -- maybe
> not for 7.5 though?)
>
Both patches are already in Xserver 1.7.4 (the one you run).
Brice
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