On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 21:46 +0100, Robert Siemer wrote: > On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 02:05:27PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > One thing to watch out for is that the X server's ACPI support is known > > to prevent DPMS in some cases, this was just recently fixed upstream. > > Well, this is not known to me. Could you point me to that fix?
Commit 809e2841aaa54662a42498aacec558bc813bba1c on master and 66b2c9bd2dddf8f8410147ebf1de7a6c045d8249 on server-1.2-branch in the xserver repo. > > If disabling ACPI in the X server doesn't work around this, please provide > > full config and log files. > > Could you please be more specific? I never ever heard of X server ACPI > support. No man page (Xserver, Xorg, xorg.conf, ati, radeon, r128) is > mentioning ACPI (apart from "radeon", but "BIOSHotkeys" does not apply > here). Yes, this is a known deficiency of the documentation. You can try Option "NoPM" in Section "ServerFlags" (xorg.conf manpage) or the -noacpi command line switch. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
