Re: dpms problems with X 4?
I've had DPMS problems with 4.0.2 as well, though different from what you describe. In my case, APM seemed to conflict with DPMS. In particular, the sequence xset dpms force suspend apm --suspend did not work as expected (the second line would cancel out the effects of the first). FWIW, I've now turned on the DPMS on suspend option in BIOS, and commented out the call to xset. This works as advertised. -chris Noah L. Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. I'm having a strange problem with X 4.0.2 (woody) and my Energy Star compliant Sony monitor. I've configured X to use DPMS to turn off the monitor after 10 minutes of inactivity with the following line in XF86Config-4: Option DPMS Option OffTime 10 After the specified period of inactivity, the monitor appears to turn itself off, but things get a bit weird. After some time (a minute or two) the monitor clicks as if waking up, and the power indicator switches from solid orange to flashing orange/green. Logging in to the system from another machine and using xset to get the status of the monitor (yes, I'm talking to the right X server ;^) indicates that DPMS is disabled. Huh? It was enabled before! using 'xset dpms 0 0 600' or 'xset dpms force off' turns it off for a little while, but then it reverts to its weird behavior again. Until today I had power saving enabled in the system BIOS, but in an attempt to isolate the problem I turned it off. The symptoms remain unchanged, though.
Re: dpms problems with X 4?
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 07:33:08PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: Yea, think this is something with the X screensaver. X screensaver probably kicks on at 10 minutes, and doesn't go to Standby 'til 30 minutes. Seems the two need to get in sync... That should not be the case. According to the xscreesaver man page, xscreensaver should notice when the X server has kicked in DPMS and shut the monitor off. It doesn't manipulate dpms at all. See the POWER MANAGEMENT section of the man page. One very odd thing is the output that 'xset q' gives during this whole process. Say I first do 'xset dpms 60 300 600' followed by 'xset q' I see what I expect: DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 60Suspend: 300Off: 600 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is Off However, a few minutes later, 'xset q' gives totally different results: DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 10Suspend: 10Off: 10 DPMS is Disabled I could understand if I was running something like GNOME or KDE that they might want to manage DPMS on their own, and could screw up some of my settings, but I'm not using them. The only clients are xscreensaver, some Eterms, Window Maker, xconsole, and xset. This strikes me as strange enough to possibly warrant a trip out of the comfy confines of the familiar Debian lists and into the unexplored region of the XFree86 mailing lists. 8^) noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html pgpVQN2xzufaD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dpms problems with X 4?
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:06:18AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 07:33:08PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: Yea, think this is something with the X screensaver. X screensaver probably kicks on at 10 minutes, and doesn't go to Standby 'til 30 minutes. Seems the two need to get in sync... That should not be the case. According to the xscreesaver man page, xscreensaver should notice when the X server has kicked in DPMS and shut the monitor off. It doesn't manipulate dpms at all. See the POWER MANAGEMENT section of the man page. One very odd thing is the output that 'xset q' gives during this whole process. Say I first do 'xset dpms 60 300 600' followed by 'xset q' I see what I expect: DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 60Suspend: 300Off: 600 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is Off However, a few minutes later, 'xset q' gives totally different results: DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 10Suspend: 10Off: 10 DPMS is Disabled There was a thread about this a week or 2 ago, it was xscreensaver that was causing dpms to be disable. I think Karsten file a bug against xscreensaver. John I could understand if I was running something like GNOME or KDE that they might want to manage DPMS on their own, and could screw up some of my settings, but I'm not using them. The only clients are xscreensaver, some Eterms, Window Maker, xconsole, and xset. This strikes me as strange enough to possibly warrant a trip out of the comfy confines of the familiar Debian lists and into the unexplored region of the XFree86 mailing lists. 8^) noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html -- -_-_-_-_-_-_- Using Linux _-_-_-_-_-_-_
dpms problems with X 4?
Hello. I'm having a strange problem with X 4.0.2 (woody) and my Energy Star compliant Sony monitor. I've configured X to use DPMS to turn off the monitor after 10 minutes of inactivity with the following line in XF86Config-4: Option DPMS Option OffTime 10 After the specified period of inactivity, the monitor appears to turn itself off, but things get a bit weird. After some time (a minute or two) the monitor clicks as if waking up, and the power indicator switches from solid orange to flashing orange/green. Logging in to the system from another machine and using xset to get the status of the monitor (yes, I'm talking to the right X server ;^) indicates that DPMS is disabled. Huh? It was enabled before! using 'xset dpms 0 0 600' or 'xset dpms force off' turns it off for a little while, but then it reverts to its weird behavior again. Until today I had power saving enabled in the system BIOS, but in an attempt to isolate the problem I turned it off. The symptoms remain unchanged, though. Has anybody else seen such a thing? I don't remember it happening with X3 under potato, but it's possible that I wasn't looking when it did. Thanks. noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html pgpFr45eSlIeZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dpms problems with X 4?
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:22:29PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: Hello. I'm having a strange problem with X 4.0.2 (woody) and my Energy Star compliant Sony monitor. I've configured X to use DPMS to turn off the monitor after 10 minutes of inactivity with the following line in XF86Config-4: Option DPMS Option OffTime 10 After the specified period of inactivity, the monitor appears to turn itself off, but things get a bit weird. After some time (a minute or two) the monitor clicks as if waking up, and the power indicator switches from solid orange to flashing orange/green. Logging in to the system from another machine and using xset to get the status of the monitor (yes, I'm talking to the right X server ;^) indicates that DPMS is disabled. Huh? It was enabled before! using 'xset dpms 0 0 600' or 'xset dpms force off' turns it off for a little while, but then it reverts to its weird behavior again. Until today I had power saving enabled in the system BIOS, but in an attempt to isolate the problem I turned it off. The symptoms remain unchanged, though. Has anybody else seen such a thing? I don't remember it happening with X3 under potato, but it's possible that I wasn't looking when it did. Yea, think this is something with the X screensaver. X screensaver probably kicks on at 10 minutes, and doesn't go to Standby 'til 30 minutes. Seems the two need to get in sync... I turned DPMS off in XF86Config and all is well... -- Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net
