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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.4 and DPMS
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:10:07
Message-Id: ik5ui3$emt$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.4 and DPMS by Mick
1 On 02/23/2011 02:51 PM, Mick wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 23 February 2011 22:45:18 Mick wrote:
3 >> On Wednesday 23 February 2011 18:54:12 walt wrote:
4 >>> On 02/23/2011 08:28 AM, Mick wrote:
5 >>>> Hi All,
6 >>>>
7 >>>> I noticed that since I installed xorg-server-1.9.4 my screen will not
8 >>>> go into standby anymore ...
9 >>>>
10 >>>> According to the man pages "DPMS" is enabled by default and I have not
11 >>>> disabled it.
12 >>>>
13 >>>> Have you noticed the same?
14 >>>
15 >>> No, it still works as usual. What does xset q tell you? Maybe it's a
16 >>> bug in the video driver?
17 >>
18 >> Hmm ... this is what I see:
19 >>
20 >> Screen Saver:
21 >> prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
22 >> timeout: 0 cycle: 5
23 >> ...
24 >>
25 >> DPMS (Energy Star):
26 >> Standby: 600 Suspend: 600 Off: 600
27 >> DPMS is Disabled
28 >>
29 >> Are you saying that the radeon driver disable DPMS?
30 >
31 > This is what the log shows:
32 >
33 > # less /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i DPMS
34 > [ 36.365] (II) Loading extension DPMS
35 > [ 36.595] (II) RADEON(0): No DPMS capabilities specified
36 > [ 36.653] (==) RADEON(0): DPMS enabled
37
38 The driver is lying to you :) That sounds to me like a bug.