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 1Gukmb-0000nS-BF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:13:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBE7BHiF024418; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:11:17 GMT Received: from ms-smtp-04.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-04.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.103]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBE79BbZ004817 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:09:12 GMT Received: from booty.electronsweatshop.com (cpe-066-057-245-110.nc.res.rr.com [66.57.245.110]) by ms-smtp-04.southeast.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kBE79AMu027036 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:09:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from booty.electronsweatshop.com (booty.electronsweatshop.com [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by booty.electronsweatshop.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C43437CC4 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:09:10 -0500 (EST) From: Randy Barlow Organization: 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <1165873016.7884.3.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612140209.06383.randy@electronsweatshop.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Archives-Salt: 65272896-0190-4219-b06b-95cd58023483 X-Archives-Hash: 2fa02c47226b4af7b0d7724e5eb4458a 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list