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From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.4 and DPMS
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:47:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ik5ui3$emt$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201102232252.04043.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>

On 02/23/2011 02:51 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 February 2011 22:45:18 Mick wrote:
>> On Wednesday 23 February 2011 18:54:12 walt wrote:
>>> On 02/23/2011 08:28 AM, Mick wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I noticed that since I installed xorg-server-1.9.4 my screen will not
>>>> go into standby anymore ...
>>>>
>>>> According to the man pages "DPMS" is enabled by default and I have not
>>>> disabled it.
>>>>
>>>> Have you noticed the same?
>>>
>>> No, it still works as usual.  What does xset q tell you?  Maybe it's a
>>> bug in the video driver?
>>
>> Hmm ... this is what I see:
>>
>> Screen Saver:
>>    prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
>>    timeout:  0    cycle:  5
>> ...
>>
>> DPMS (Energy Star):
>>    Standby: 600    Suspend: 600    Off: 600
>>    DPMS is Disabled
>>
>> Are you saying that the radeon driver disable DPMS?
>
> This is what the log shows:
>
> # less /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i DPMS
> [    36.365] (II) Loading extension DPMS
> [    36.595] (II) RADEON(0): No DPMS capabilities specified
> [    36.653] (==) RADEON(0): DPMS enabled

The driver is lying to you :)  That sounds to me like a bug.






      reply	other threads:[~2011-02-24 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-23 16:28 [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.4 and DPMS Mick
2011-02-23 18:54 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2011-02-23 19:21   ` Dale
2011-02-23 23:19     ` Mick
2011-02-24 16:23       ` Dale
2011-02-24 22:55         ` Mick
2011-02-24 23:16           ` Dale
2011-02-23 22:45   ` Mick
2011-02-23 22:51     ` Mick
2011-02-24 15:47       ` walt [this message]

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