[gentoo-user] DPMS doesn't seem to work for me in Xorg 7.1

[gentoo-user] DPMS doesn't seem to work for me in Xorg 7.1

[Randy Barlow]

Howdy all.  I recently did the emerge --update world business, and with
that came xorg 7.1 (was 7.0 before).  So everything seemed to be fine
and dandy, but I've noticed that the DPMS for the monitor doesn't seem
to work quite right.  I'm seeing this behavior on two machines (one a
desktop and one a laptop, so different types of hardware, etc.), so I'm
thinking it has something to do with some change to xorg itself, or
maybe a config file?  The symptoms are slightly different on each
machine.  On my laptop (intel i810 driver), the screen just never shuts
off anymore at all.  It's just happy to stay on seemingly forever,
unless I shut it.  The desktop however (nvidia legacy w/ CRT monitor)
sometimes works (meaning turns off correctly), sometimes flickers on and
off repeatedly until I move the mouse to wake it up, and sometimes just
never turns off.  I hate seemingly non-reproducible problems!  I do have
Option "DPMS" in the Section "Monitor" in my xorg.conf as well as this
section at the end:

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option  "StandbyTime" "20"
        Option  "SuspendTime" "40"
        Option  "OffTime" "60"
EndSection

The Xorg log doesn't have any EE's in it, but does have the following
warning:

(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)

And, of course, that file does not exist.  I have no idea if that's
significant for my problem or not.  revdep-rebuild says everything is
peachy.  Any clues?  Anybody seen this before?  Thanks!
-- 
Randy Barlow
http://www.electronsweatshop.com
-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] DPMS doesn't seem to work for me in Xorg 7.1

[Randy Barlow]

Randy Barlow wrote:
> Howdy all.  I recently did the emerge --update world business, and with
> that came xorg 7.1 (was 7.0 before).  So everything seemed to be fine
> and dandy, but I've noticed that the DPMS for the monitor doesn't seem
> to work quite right.  I'm seeing this behavior on two machines (one a
> desktop and one a laptop, so different types of hardware, etc.), so I'm
> thinking it has something to do with some change to xorg itself, or
> maybe a config file?  The symptoms are slightly different on each
> machine.  On my laptop (intel i810 driver), the screen just never shuts
> off anymore at all.  It's just happy to stay on seemingly forever,
> unless I shut it.  The desktop however (nvidia legacy w/ CRT monitor)
> sometimes works (meaning turns off correctly), sometimes flickers on and
> off repeatedly until I move the mouse to wake it up, and sometimes just
> never turns off.  I hate seemingly non-reproducible problems!  I do have
> Option "DPMS" in the Section "Monitor" in my xorg.conf as well as this
> section at the end:
> 
> Section "ServerFlags"
>         Option  "StandbyTime" "20"
>         Option  "SuspendTime" "40"
>         Option  "OffTime" "60"
> EndSection
> 
> The Xorg log doesn't have any EE's in it, but does have the following
> warning:
> 
> (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
> 
> And, of course, that file does not exist.  I have no idea if that's
> significant for my problem or not.  revdep-rebuild says everything is
> peachy.  Any clues?  Anybody seen this before?  Thanks!

I have some more information - this might explain why the laptop doesn't
ever work.  The command /usr/bin/xset q tells me:


DPMS (Energy Star):
  Server does not have the DPMS Extension

Anyone know how I can get the DPMS extension?
-- 
Randy Barlow
http://www.electronsweatshop.com
-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] DPMS doesn't seem to work for me in Xorg 7.1

[Randy Barlow]

Randy Barlow wrote:
> I have some more information - this might explain why the laptop doesn't
> ever work.  The command /usr/bin/xset q tells me:
> 
> 
> DPMS (Energy Star):
>   Server does not have the DPMS Extension
> 
> Anyone know how I can get the DPMS extension?

Well, I think I may have solved both of my own problems, though time
will tell.  For the desktop, it turns out that you need a Option "DPMS"
"TRUE" line in the section for the video card if you are using the
proprietary nvidia driver.  For the laptop, it turns out that some of
the laptop mode scripts that I had been using must have been upgraded,
and these seemed to have chosen to manage DPMS themselves instead of
having X do it.  So I just changed those settings back.  Man, I really
need to pay better attention when I'm updating the config files!

-- 
Randy Barlow
http://www.electronsweatshop.com
-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list