Bug#566870: xserver-xorg: gnome-power-manager complains about broken IDLETIME counter

[Sam Morris]

I've been seeing this on-and-off for quite a few months. Today it
appeared immediately after I logged in.

I have xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.5-1 installed.

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Bug#566870: xserver-xorg: gnome-power-manager complains about broken IDLETIME counter

[Brice Goglin]

tags 566870 -patch
thank you



Zack Weinberg wrote:
 Package: xserver-xorg
 Version: 1:7.5+2
 Severity: normal
 Tags: patch

 Since this morning, gnome-power-manager has put an alert in my notification
 area with this text:

 Session active, not inhibited, screen idle.
 If you can see this text, your display server is broken and
 you should contact your distributor.
 Please see 
 http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/08/17/gnome-power-manager-and-blanking-removal-of-bodges/
 for more information.

 At the cited URL, there is an article explaining that the IDLETIME counter
 should not be reset when the DPMS state changes, and offering two patches
 to be applied to the X server:

 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/patch/?id=db568f9eabf3450d8a023597ff007df355b13ea8
 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/patch/?id=6b5978dcf1f7ac3ecc2f22df06f7000f360e2066

 (I'm a little confused, though, because the article is from August 2009
 and claims that these patches have been applied to upstream X -- maybe
 not for 7.5 though?)
   

Both patches are already in Xserver 1.7.4 (the one you run).

Brice




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Bug#566870: xserver-xorg: gnome-power-manager complains about broken IDLETIME counter

[Brice Goglin]

Zack Weinberg wrote:
 On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Brice Goglin brice.gog...@ens-lyon.org 
 wrote:
   
 Zack Weinberg wrote:
 
 Since this morning, gnome-power-manager has put an alert in my notification
 area with this text:

 Session active, not inhibited, screen idle.
 If you can see this text, your display server is broken and
 you should contact your distributor.
 Please see 
 http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/08/17/gnome-power-manager-and-blanking-removal-of-bodges/
 for more information.
   
 Both patches are already in Xserver 1.7.4 (the one you run).
 

 The problem went away after a reboot.  Perhaps it was an upgrade glitch?
   

I think I saw the same notification on my i945 laptop yesterday, I check
again tonight.

Brice




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Bug#566870: xserver-xorg: gnome-power-manager complains about broken IDLETIME counter

[Zack Weinberg]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Brice Goglin brice.gog...@ens-lyon.org wrote:
 Zack Weinberg wrote:
 Since this morning, gnome-power-manager has put an alert in my notification
 area with this text:

 Session active, not inhibited, screen idle.
 If you can see this text, your display server is broken and
 you should contact your distributor.
 Please see 
 http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/08/17/gnome-power-manager-and-blanking-removal-of-bodges/
 for more information.

 Both patches are already in Xserver 1.7.4 (the one you run).

The problem went away after a reboot.  Perhaps it was an upgrade glitch?

zw



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