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?
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