From: Randy Barlow <randy@electronsweatshop.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DPMS Not Working on i810
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:09:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200612140209.06383.randy@electronsweatshop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <elloi2$2s0$1@sea.gmane.org>
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 03:17, Remy Blank wrote:
> I've had something similar, where DPMS would work initially, and switch
> the screen off after the configured timeout, then switch on again for no
> apparent reason after a few minutes and stay on.
>
> What I could find out is that xorg connects to the ACPI daemon and
> interprets LID events. In my case (Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop) there are
> spurious LID events, e.g. sometimes three "closes" in a row. This made
> xorg switch the screen on, but then not switch it off again.
>
> Anyway, the solution for me was to add:
>
> Option "NoPM"
>
> to the "ServerFlags" section.
Well, just wanted to write back and say that this sort of seemed to have
worked. I'll give it the test of time, but the screen did in fact just turn
off on its own! Thanks Remy!
R
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-11 21:36 [gentoo-user] DPMS Not Working on i810 Randy Barlow
2006-12-12 8:17 ` [gentoo-user] " Remy Blank
2006-12-14 7:09 ` Randy Barlow [this message]
2006-12-14 8:51 ` Remy Blank
2006-12-17 17:30 ` Randy Barlow
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