Same issue for me, fixed with comment #22 (thanks!) I moved power* out of ~/.kde/share/config/
I note that once i recreated my power settings, i have only powerdevilrc and powermanagementprofilesrc in the config directory (in terms of power*). The file list that I moved out (power*) included: powerdevil2profilesrc.old powerdevil.notifyrc powerdevilprofilesrc.old powerdevilrc powermanagementprofilesrc I also noted the following in /var/log/syslog, don't know if it's related: Nov 24 18:02:48 caseylinux dbus[1102]: [system] Activating service name='org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' (using servicehelper) Nov 24 18:02:48 caseylinux org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper: QDBusConnection: system D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. Nov 24 18:02:48 caseylinux dbus[1102]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' Nov 24 18:03:18 caseylinux dbus[1102]: [system] Activating service name='org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' (using servicehelper) Nov 24 18:03:18 caseylinux org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper: QDBusConnection: system D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. Nov 24 18:03:18 caseylinux dbus[1102]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' Nov 24 18:05:49 caseylinux dbus[1102]: [system] Activating service name='org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' (using servicehelper) Nov 24 18:05:49 caseylinux org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper: QDBusConnection: system D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. Nov 24 18:05:49 caseylinux dbus[1102]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' Nov 24 18:06:07 caseylinux dbus[1102]: [system] Activating service name='org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' (using servicehelper) Nov 24 18:06:07 caseylinux org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper: QDBusConnection: system D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. Nov 24 18:06:07 caseylinux dbus[1102]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' After moving the files and disabling/enabling the power settings, more of these errors appeared. This started for me at random... i recently updated to 12.10, but it's been running fine for a few days. This just happened when I started up this last time (didn't reboot to see if it continued). I also have a dead battery (flashing orange battery light on Dell Inspiron 6000), which failed maybe 4 or so boots ago. -c -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/952521 Title: Screen blanking and dpms can't be turned off Status in “xorg” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: This is Kubuntu-11.10, all current updates applied, 64-bit. the problem is the screen keeps blanking -- going to black every few seconds, regularly, and moving the mouse does restore the normal screen. I do not have any screensavers activated, and everything on Power save is turned off. I tried turning off dpms with: xset dpms 0 0 0 xset dpms off xset -dpms And then maybe 30 seconds later, the screen goes black, and checking with xset -q, dpms has been turned back on. I cannot figure out how to completely disable dpms. this is extremely irritating, as I cannot work with the screen going black every few seconds. Something is turning it back on, and I haven't been able to figure out what. I set up xorg.conf to disable dpms with: Section "ServerFlags" Option "blank time" "0" Option "standby time" "0" Option "suspend time" "0" Option "off time" "0" Option "dpms" "false" EndSection After logging in, xset shows dpms is disabled, but after a few seconds, it comes back on. Is there a way to shut this off, once and for all? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/952521/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
