Bug 56443 – xorg-x11 DPMS power saving - erratic behaviour!

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 47922
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jaime Fordham 2004-07-08 05:00:13 UTC]

'm running :

- Xorg 6.7.0
- NVIDIA Kernel driver 1.0-6106 (previously 5336 but the same problem)
- gcc (GCC) 3.3.3 20040412 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.3-r6, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6)
- Kernel 2.6.7 (gentoo-dev-sources)

I've enabled DPMS support in the xorg.conf file by adding Option "DPMS" and I'm using the KDE Control Centre, under Display power control, to set the screen blanking time to 10 minutes.

The problem I have is that regardless of user activity, in other words I can be moving the mouse around or using the keyboard, the display goes into power saving mode sporadicly! It can happen every 10 or 15 minutes or happen twice in 10 minutes.

This is annoying as it takes a while to recover from power saving mode, any suggestions or indications that this could may well be a bug (Xorg or NVIDIA drivers) ?

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enable DPMS in your Xorg config file
2.Sit at your box for most of the day waiting for it to happen! :P
3.

Actual Results:  
Display went into power saving mode with user activity

Expected Results:  
No power saving mode when I'm using the box thankyou!

Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0,
2.6.7-gentoo-r8)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.gentoo-pt.org/pub/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo-pt.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X acpi alsa apache2 avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups divx4linux
encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imlib java jpeg kde
libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg nas ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam
pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk
tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Jaime Fordham 2004-07-08 05:01:48 UTC]

Forgot to add, running KDE 3.2.2

[Comment 2 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2004-07-08 12:33:06 UTC]

Test with both 'nv' and 'nvidia' drivers, please.

[Comment 3 Jaime Fordham 2004-07-09 12:08:24 UTC]

I've tried with "nv" but it corrupts my display....

As far as I can see, I'm not the only on having this trouble as can be seen on this thread in the forums : http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=188288&highlight=

Btw, I've updated Xorg to the latest (6.7.0-r1) version in the portage tree and I still have the same trouble.

[Comment 4 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2004-08-25 00:02:29 UTC]

http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=792 is the upstream bug. Hopefully it will be fixed in 6.8.

[Comment 5 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2004-08-25 00:02:54 UTC]

*** Bug 61486 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 6 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2004-09-30 14:13:42 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47922 ***