On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 09:33:35AM +0000, Alan Mycroft wrote: > OK. There is a further PM issue which I've only just pinned down > after installing SUSE 10.2. I can chase more, esp. if you give me > some pointers, but I thought I'd mention in now in case you've seen > it before. > > I'm running FVWM2 on standard SUSE 10.2, so the desktops are not > interfering/(taking proper control) ;-)
:-) > Anyway, the curio I've notices is that: > 1. *boot up* in SUSE 10.2, and FVWM (as default WM) > 2. my .profile contains "xset dmps 0 0 300" [I've also tried just > "xset dmps 300" and "xset dmps 0 300" so the screen correctly powers > off after 5 mins inactivity. > 3. BUT, after running "/usr/bin/powersave" and restore, > then I find that while the screen powers off after 5 mins, after a few > seconds (3-40 seems to be the range I can make, rather variable but > I can't accurately control it [= some daemon?]) the backlight turns > on, even though the screen shows no video. This looks like https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=197858 > I believe is also the case with s2ram and pm-suspend. > This suggests that powersave/s2ram does not reset enough of the video > controller (unfortunately I'm not an expert on the h/w control here). I don't think it is related to suspend at all, it is an Xserver bug. -- Stefan Seyfried QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices | "Any ideas, John?" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg | "Well, surrounding them's out." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Suspend-devel mailing list Suspend-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/suspend-devel
