Update - something in the upgrade from Maverick to Natty appears to be the culprit for me. Good thing I made a complete backup prior to this upgrade.
I used the Alternate CD ISO to upgrade to Natty since the online Natty repository wasn't available.. Then I immediately used the online distribution upgrade to upgrade to Oneiric and it was during this install process that the my monitors first shut down (still running Natty). I updated and upgraded and distribution upgraded to Precise and when that didn't fix the problem, I did the same to Quantal. That still didn't solve the problem. Since I spent the better part of a week screwing with this problem and never getting it fixed, I had to trash that entire system. A fresh install of Precise on that same hardware did not have the problem. Clearly this bug is a huge upgrade blunder. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/30969 Title: monitor suspends regardless of gnome-power-manager timeouts Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “gnome-screensaver” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “xorg” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: When I play a movie fullscreen in totem(-xine), the monitor goes to standby in 20 minutes. The screensaver does run, if I set the timeout to 1 minute it will run when not in fullscreen, and won't if it's fullscreen. However, the monitor goes to standby, regardless of the timeout value entered in gnome-power-manager. If I set g-p-m timeout to 1 minute, nothing happens. If I set it to "never" the screen will still go to standby. After consulting with mjg59, it seems that all g-p-m does is modify a gconf key, and gnome-screensaver is the only thing that actually tells X to send the monitor to standby. So, this might be two bugs. -> monitor goes to standby even when playing movie in fullscreen -> the timeout value of g-p-m seems to have no effect. Running dapper. Please help me debug. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/30969/+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
