From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HwbES-00048S-Bm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:58:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l589tu2U002464; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:55:56 GMT Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.54]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l589tsBE002454 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:55:55 GMT Received: from wstn.prhnet (prh.gotadsl.co.uk [81.6.251.123]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 768382B7BEB for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:55:51 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] System crashes when idle [SOLUTION(?)] Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:55:46 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <465BCF5E.8020109@isis-papyrus.com> <4668F88F.5000102@isis-papyrus.com> <46691F0C.3060703@getdesigned.at> In-Reply-To: <46691F0C.3060703@getdesigned.at> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706081055.46612.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 3c1aaf09-6b00-4afd-bad7-024bb3b8bcc7 X-Archives-Hash: 0ef8a95862e8ee4e6944d9498bbcc12a On Friday 08 June 2007 10:19:08 Sebastian Redl wrote: > Michael Ulm wrote: > > In xorg.conf, in the monitor section, I was missing the line > > Options="DPMS" > > > > I'll still have to research how leaving out this option could lead to > > crashes, so I appreciate any insight this group may give. > > Since practically every monitor supports this, and since it's > practically always enabled, it may be that other code paths of X.org are > insufficiently tested, causing the server to crash when it wants to put > the monitor into a power saver mode. That's my best guess. My experience doesn't match this. I've had to remove the DPMS option from my xorg.conf to prevent lockups. Those only happened if I left the KDM login screen up until the screen blanker cut in, but then the only way out was a hard reset. Apart from wanting my machine to do only what I tell it to, and I'm quite capable of switching my monitor off when I'm not using it, I think it's dangerous for any system to make assumptions about what facilities will be required in any particular case. My hardware is an nVidia GeForce 7300 GS driving an Iiyama AU4831D screen, and the X nv driver comes from x11-base/xorg-x11-7.2. Or sometimes I play with the nVidia closed-source drivers, but as far as I know that doesn't affect the lockups. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list