Bug 112587 – nvidia-drivers - erratic dpms failure on nvidia geforce2go

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

[Description Carl Michal 2005-11-15 01:03:57 UTC]

The dpms settings set through xscreensaver (or xset) are obeyed for a while when
X is first started, but some time later (minutes or hours), the display never
properly gets turned off.  The dpms behaviour has had some unpredictability to
it for as long as I can remember.  The behaviour changed relatively recently
(maybe 3-6 months ago in stable releases, sorry I can't be specific about an
Xorg version).  It used to disobey the dpms settings (sometimes) after viewing
movie clips with mplayer.  In more recent versions, this doesn't seem to be
necessary.  

When X is started, the dpms settings are obeyed.  After a while, the display
power is never turned off, the screen is blanked instead, but the lcd backlight
stays on - this is a Dell Inspiron 8100 with Nvidia GeForce2Go.  My dpms
settings are: 0 0 240.  Even after the dpms settings are no longer properly
followed, the display can still be turned off with:
xset dpms force off

I am using 1.0.6629-r4 of the nvidia drivers.
If I use the nv driver instead, dpms doesn't work at all - and there are all
sorts of other display problems.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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 emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110,
glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU      1000MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo
http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr commercial crypt cups curl
divx4linux dts dvd eds emacs emboss encode fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif
gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imlib java jpeg libg++
libwww lirc mad mikmod mmx mmxext motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses network nls
nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl plotutils png python
quicktime readline real samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff
truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userlocales vorbis win32codecs
xml xml2 xmms xv xvid xvmc zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 1 Carl Michal 2005-11-15 09:07:53 UTC]

X version is: xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4

[Comment 2 Grzegorz {NineX} Krzystek 2006-10-09 06:30:41 UTC]

look at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5665 ;)

[Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-10-09 06:39:21 UTC]

Has this been fixed with newer X and nvidia-legacy-drivers?

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-04-08 17:58:20 UTC]

Get back to us, please.

[Comment 5 Carl Michal 2007-04-11 18:42:26 UTC]

I'm using gnome-screensaver and gnome-power-manager now, which I believe blanks the screen somewhat differently from xscreensaver.

The blanking still isn't perfect though - maybe one morning a week I'll find that the screen turned on and stayed on at some point during the night.

I currently have nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776 and xorg-server-1.1.1-r4