Package: kdesktop Version: 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5 Severity: normal Hi, at some point (probably in the 3.5.9 series somewhere) kdesktop started interfering with DPMS. The initial symptom was that the screensaver would always run (when it was supposed to), rather than power saving kicking in after a while.
When functioning correctly, 'xset dpms force off' would cause the display to blank (and a relay in the CRT would click) and a few seconds later the CRT would actually power down, with a second relay click. Display Standby and Suspend work in the same way. As it is now, the CRT makes the same clicks, but the second click results in a monitor that's still alive (despite xset q's claims to the contrary). Very occasionally, the monitor will enter power saving for some fraction of a second. And even more rarely, it will successfully power off. With the screensaver enabled, power saving attempts also cause kdesktop to emit the following message: X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 10 Major opcode: 2 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x3c0000f There are a couple of workarounds: - kill the kdesktop process (it's not like I ever see my desktop). - Disable the screensaver 'Start automatically' option. As both options prevent the screensaver from kicking in automatically, I am hoping for other alternatives. :) Invoking the screensaver via locking the screen does not itself inhibit power saving. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (499, 'testing'), (496, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages kdesktop depends on: ii kdebase-bin 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5 core binaries for the KDE base mod ii kdeeject 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5 script used by KDE to eject remova ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6 core libraries and binaries for al ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-2 GCC support library ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1 7.0.3-5 A free implementation of the OpenG ii libglu1-mesa [libglu1] 7.0.3-5 The OpenGL utility library (GLU) ii libkonq4 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5 core libraries for Konqueror ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.8b-5 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.1.4-2 X11 client-side library ii libxau6 1:1.0.3-3 X11 authorisation library ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxss1 1:1.1.3-1 X11 Screen Saver extension library ii libxxf86misc1 1:1.0.1-3 X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extensio kdesktop recommends no packages. kdesktop suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed -MD -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Deegan Hugaholic http://wibble.darktech.org/gallery/ ------------------------- Nyy Tybel Gb Gur Ulcabgbnq! ------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]