Bug 159392 – DPMS not working for Intel i810 on Xorg 7.1

• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Randy Barlow 2006-12-29 10:15:58 UTC]

The LCD on my laptop used to turn off automatically as per my config file prior to Xorg 7.1, but now it will only turn off one time, and after I wake it, it will never turn off automatically again until I restart X.  I'm not sure what the difference is in X, but it definitely isn't behaving as I would expect it to.  Here are the relevant sections from my xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "TouchPad" "AlwaysCore"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        #Option        "StandbyTime" "20"
        #Option        "SuspendTime" "40"
        Option         "OffTime" "20"
EndSection

...
#Before I added this section, the screen wouldn't ever turn off at all.  Now it turns off once
Section "ServerFlags"
        Option "NoPM"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
        Option  "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

I do have ACPI enabled in the kernel, and the monitor does automatically turn off in the terminal (as in, when X isn't running).  Here are the relevant entries from lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 33)

In my make.conf, I have VIDEO_CARDS="i810".

Here is my emerge --info:

Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.16-suspend2-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-suspend2-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Last Sync: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:30:01 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -mtune=i686 -march=pentium-m -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mtune=i686 -march=pentium-m -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aac aalib acpi aim alsa apache2 artworkextra asf authdaemond bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 calendar caps cdb cdparanoia cdr cli cpudetection cracklib crypt cups dbus dcraw directfb dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc encode exif fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gimp glut gnome gphoto2 gpm graphviz gtk gtk2 http i8x0 iconv ieee1394 imagemagick imap input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics ipod ipv6 isdnlog ithreads java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kernel_linux kqemu libcaca libg++ lm_sensors logrotate mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mysql mysqli ncurses netpbm network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive opengl oscar pam pcre pdf perl png posix ppds pppd python quicktime readline real reflection samba sasl scanner sdl session slp spell spl sse sse2 ssl symlink tcpd tetex tiff tokenizer truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode unzip usb userland_GNU v4l video_cards_i810 videos vim win32codecs xinerama xml xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xorg xv yahoo zip zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Thanks!

[Comment 1 Randy Barlow 2006-12-30 08:10:54 UTC]

Well of course when I actually write a bug report, the problem seems to mysteriously disappear.  I'm not kidding though - it was doing this for a few months, and then I write a bug report and all of a sudden it wants to work again.  I'll reopen if it acts up again, but for now I'll close the bug...

[Comment 2 Randy Barlow 2006-12-30 08:11:30 UTC]

Closing...

[Comment 3 Randy Barlow 2006-12-31 13:44:10 UTC]

Well, now my laptop is back to its old antics, and it started up again exactly when I rebooted the machine.  I'm not sure what change that made, but it seems that it did something.  Now my machine doesn't turn the screen off at all...

[Comment 4 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2007-01-27 16:31:28 UTC]

Could you please give xorg-x11 7.2 a try, and re-open the bug once you have done so?  Thanks.