From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PskEV-0006ZB-I9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:04:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15C9A1C012 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:04:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2169E04CB for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:55:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb42 with SMTP id 42so1562549wyb.40 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:55:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent :references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=kdUS5QW3NYyz1exK0uGrDufOZgyR30EWG1fW1ExLKRQ=; b=BieRFU3W0Tu154JwL7TD+v2RWE62CkA1BheZEagrJuXIM6lRfZidCi5lyQTao8PUFA eKFNOvCbzrSnQXTfn2PqdD/Y6VwFdXmA1ODidlEWwd2pwDyqjyo8SlNnP/6FCDQ/gz/o P3ovudP08jDHHcjcJuw06v7YANdio0mpel+7A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=DNbq/qlfect0HRoJi3oHO74ODqanIuIDGepEGX+2tvdPwITcUMTIElrfpQ7nxHvq0l PT8vVRtmZM4Ti76vXGCYgDyuA5o7Jn0BOc/1w+/UZjyqIr44MIbbhMTNz+RCKb0k1a20 mdVWZZhVSLhsvjzwfl11qXrHftiQIPN8J1SmY= Received: by 10.216.17.202 with SMTP id j52mr6424756wej.36.1298588126768; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:55:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u2sm12318weh.36.2011.02.24.14.55.25 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:55:25 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.4 and DPMS Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:55:28 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201102232319.21861.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4D668603.1030106@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D668603.1030106@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1547915.OtRbeTlnJJ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102242255.40517.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4fb05a63f57833cdbda9ba480b05444e --nextPart1547915.OtRbeTlnJJ Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thursday 24 February 2011 16:23:31 Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 February 2011 19:21:34 Dale wrote: > >> When I upgraded to KDE4, I had to start using xset to handle turning my > >> monitor off. I put it in the startup section and it seems to work OK. > >=20 > > This is strange - I added Option "DPMS" "on" under the Monitor secti= on > > in the xorg.conf, but it won't take. > >=20 > > xset +dpms works fine ... > >=20 > > Why would that be? >=20 > I think there is a thread where I asked the same thing. When I first > upgraded to KDE4, my monitor would not turn off unless I turned it off > myself. I set up a script that runs when I login to cut off the > monitor. I have another script that sets it back when I log out. I put > it in ~.kde4/Autostart. It's the same commands I tested manually and it > works fine. >=20 > If I recall correctly, KDE was not quite up to speed on controlling the > monitor with DPMS yet. That was back in the 4.1 days so that may have > changed but given you are having issues with it, maybe it is still > having problems. This could be due to the hal/udev/polkit switch as > well. They may be letting all that settle so that they only have to > write the code once. I would do that if it was me. ;-) >=20 > This is my settings when I am logged in: >=20 > xset dpms 3600 3600 3600 >=20 > I think that is one hour. I'm pretty sure it is measured in seconds not > minutes. I would have thought that DPMS is a an xorg function/issue, rather than KDE= 's. Things went sideways here when I upgrade xorg-server from 1.9.2 to 1.9.4. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1547915.OtRbeTlnJJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk1m4ewACgkQVTDTR3kpaLZb6wCgpvpA8AhjbGx67gbrxbwPo01G 1OIAniHu3Z4XDlndvkkzaKxCJZKG+pnR =7uHc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1547915.OtRbeTlnJJ--