My monitor timout and DPMS have been acting really wacky since I upgraded to Lenny. In X the screen blanking behaviour will often turn off my monitor instead of just blank it, and then the DPMS will turn it back on. I have checked what xset says, and it says that the monitor is on during blanking, even though it is off, but then it says that it is off when it is actually on. This means that DPMS will never turn it off since it already thinks it is off.
I often use a button which runs 'xset DPMS force off' to immediately blank the screen, but this doesn't work right either. Instead it momentarily turns it off, but the monitor comes back on after a few seconds. I had changed that to 'xset s activate' until I noticed that it was coming back on after a while. The following is a sample of what I have used to check it out: $ xset s 15 dpms 0 0 30;sleep 20;xset q | grep Monitor;sleep 30;xset q | grep Monitor Monitor is On Monitor is Off A similar example, but forced blanking: $ sleep 1;xset s 15 dpms 0 0 30 s activate;sleep 20;xset q|grep Monitor;sleep 20;xset q|grep Monitor Monitor is On Monitor is Off A test with forced dpms: $ sleep 1;xset dpms force off;sleep 10;xset q|grep Monitor Monitor is Off In all the above cases, the monitor was on when it said it was off, and off when it said it was off. In etch, everything worked as expected. Does anybody else notice this same problem, and if so where should I report a bug? I tried checking for bug reports on this, but I haven't found any. Thanks. -- Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org