Hi, dear XFree86 developers,
because I've noticed that 4.4.0 release is coming, I would like to inform
about a problem which I'm observing for a longer time, for about month or
two, using a regularly CVS updated copy. Now it does with 4.4.0RC1.
The problem is that the DPMS sometimes blanks my screen just during my
normal work with the system, without any timeouts. Monitor blanks and goes
to suspend (or off, I cannot distinguish between these two, it's power
indicator simply turns to orange and after the reactivation, it turns
on degaussing). Immediately after moving the mouse or pressing a key it starts
again, as for normal DPMS action. It can appear 1 - 2 secs from my last action,
or even during an action, which then causes just a hardly noticeable single
"blink", the monitor of couse cannot turn itself off and on during such a short
period. Normally it appears rarely, for about once per hour, but sometimes it
can happen three times per minute. I didn't find any dependencies between what
I'm doing and this problem, I have just a nonconfirmed hypothesis that it
happens more often when the CPU load is high.
I'm using a nVidia card with native XFree nv driver, not with nVidia
proprietary (I don't play games :-) ). In my XF86Config, there are the
following lines:
# Set the basic blanking screen saver timeout.
Option "blank time" "10" # 10 minutes
# Set the DPMS timeouts. These are set here because they are global
# rather than screen-specific. These settings alone don't enable DPMS.
# It is enabled per-screen (or per-monitor), and even then only when
# the driver supports it.
Option "standby time" "20"
Option "suspend time" "30"
Option "off time" "60"
Option "dpms"
I'm running X11 on a SMP system with dual Athlon/1600+, the video card
is
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev
b2)
and the box is running Linux-2.6.0-test11 with preemption enabled. The BIOS
is pure ACPI, no APM at all. ACPI is activated in the kernel.
Because I don't know what else to talk about, it's all for now. Please
write me if you want to investigate more about the problem, how to proceed
with more specific testing. And please Cc: me with Your replies, as I'm not
subscribed to this mailing list.
With regards,
Pavel Troller
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