Hi Jurgen, Thanks for reporting the problem. I have took the bug 7356 and will do some investigation.
Regards, Jedy On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 08:59 -0700, J?rgen Keil wrote: > Both gnome-power-manager and xscreensaver try to control the X server's DPMS > settings? > > It seems that gnome-power-manager DPMS support is incomplete when the user > doesn't use gnome-screensaver (which isn't included with OpenSolaris). For > this > reason gnome-power-manager sometimes resets the DPMS standby / suspend / off > timeouts to 0. > > $ xset q > ... > DPMS (Energy Star): > Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0 > DPMS is Enabled > Monitor is On > > > This seems to happen when we resume an x86 system after it was > suspended-to-ram using the power button: > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=7356 > > I think I've also seen this problem on a new gnome session, when > xscreensaver and gnome-power-manager race during session startup > and gnome-power-manager starts after xscreensaver, resetting the > DPMS timeouts from xscreensaver to 0.
