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On Friday 08 June 2007 10:19:08 Sebastian Redl wrote: |
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> Michael Ulm wrote: |
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> > In xorg.conf, in the monitor section, I was missing the line |
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> > Options="DPMS" |
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> > I'll still have to research how leaving out this option could lead to |
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> > crashes, so I appreciate any insight this group may give. |
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> Since practically every monitor supports this, and since it's |
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> practically always enabled, it may be that other code paths of X.org are |
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> insufficiently tested, causing the server to crash when it wants to put |
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> the monitor into a power saver mode. That's my best guess. |
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My experience doesn't match this. I've had to remove the DPMS option from my |
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xorg.conf to prevent lockups. Those only happened if I left the KDM login |
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screen up until the screen blanker cut in, but then the only way out was a |
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hard reset. |
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Apart from wanting my machine to do only what I tell it to, and I'm quite |
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capable of switching my monitor off when I'm not using it, I think it's |
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dangerous for any system to make assumptions about what facilities will be |
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required in any particular case. |
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My hardware is an nVidia GeForce 7300 GS driving an Iiyama AU4831D screen, |
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and the X nv driver comes from x11-base/xorg-x11-7.2. Or sometimes I play |
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with the nVidia closed-source drivers, but as far as I know that doesn't |
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affect the lockups. |
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Rgds |
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Peter Humphrey |
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Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 |
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