Bug#568555: xserver-xorg: DPMS "off" doesn't stick

[Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:52:28 +0200, Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> wrote:
> On Don, 2011-08-18 at 20:17 +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: 
> > I am indeed, at least in effect:
> > for dev in /dev/input/event*; do (sudo xterm -e "evtest $dev" &); done;
> > read; sleep 2; xset dpms force off
> 
> You may want to try a current drm-fixes kernel, e.g.
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=73104b5cfe3067d68f2c2de3f3d4d4964c55873e
> 
> looks possibly relevant.

That is indeed a likely candidate; I won't be able to try it out for a couple
of weeks though. I'll let you know the result when I do!

Thanks for your time,

Stephen