Randy Barlow wrote: > Howdy all. I recently did the emerge --update world business, and with > that came xorg 7.1 (was 7.0 before). So everything seemed to be fine > and dandy, but I've noticed that the DPMS for the monitor doesn't seem > to work quite right. I'm seeing this behavior on two machines (one a > desktop and one a laptop, so different types of hardware, etc.), so I'm > thinking it has something to do with some change to xorg itself, or > maybe a config file? The symptoms are slightly different on each > machine. On my laptop (intel i810 driver), the screen just never shuts > off anymore at all. It's just happy to stay on seemingly forever, > unless I shut it. The desktop however (nvidia legacy w/ CRT monitor) > sometimes works (meaning turns off correctly), sometimes flickers on and > off repeatedly until I move the mouse to wake it up, and sometimes just > never turns off. I hate seemingly non-reproducible problems! I do have > Option "DPMS" in the Section "Monitor" in my xorg.conf as well as this > section at the end: > > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "StandbyTime" "20" > Option "SuspendTime" "40" > Option "OffTime" "60" > EndSection > > The Xorg log doesn't have any EE's in it, but does have the following > warning: > > (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) > > And, of course, that file does not exist. I have no idea if that's > significant for my problem or not. revdep-rebuild says everything is > peachy. Any clues? Anybody seen this before? Thanks!
I have some more information - this might explain why the laptop doesn't ever work. The command /usr/bin/xset q tells me: DPMS (Energy Star): Server does not have the DPMS Extension Anyone know how I can get the DPMS extension? -- Randy Barlow http://www.electronsweatshop.com -- [email protected] mailing list
