Bug 187092
| Summary: | DPMS state is never shifted to "OFF" | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Kevin DeKorte <kdekorte> | ||||
| Component: | gnome-power-manager | Assignee: | John (J5) Palmieri <johnp> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 5 | CC: | jkeck, richard | ||||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2006-04-02 22:34:24 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Kevin DeKorte
2006-03-28 14:00:15 UTC
It does, it waits double the suspend time, so if you've got gnome-screensaver setting the idle time at 10 minutes, and the DPMS slider is set to 10 minutes in g-p-p, then at 20 minutes idle the monitor will suspend, and at 30 minutes idle the monitor will power off. Well it does not appear to work with my setup. It used to work fine with FC4, xscreensaver and fglrx. BTW, I had tried gnome-power-manager (from nrpms) on FC4 and it did not ever set the monitor state to OFF either. I set the slider to 20 mins and walked away. The screen does go "dark", but it is not "OFF" even after letting it sit for over 2 hrs. This problem seems similar to GNOME Bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324419 BTW if I do an xset q all the DPMS values appear to be 0. So I am guessing this info is stored elseware. Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On Of course those values where extracted while I was on the console. What versions of gnome-screensaver and gnome-power-manager do you both have? rpm -q gnome-power-manager gnome-screensaver gnome-power-manager-2.14.0-1 gnome-screensaver-2.14.0-1 xset won't work using gnome-screensaver. Are you confident enough to try a patch to CVS if I attach one? Richard, yes I can handle a patch. I am also willing to try sample code if you want to try that. I have current CVS of gnome-power-manager installed and working. Still has the DPMS OFF problem (not that I expected it to be fixed, but if it did that would have been cool). So I am ready to try some patches. First, can you try:
sleep 2; dbus-send --session \
--dest=org.gnome.PowerManager \
--type=method_call \
--print-reply \
--reply-timeout=2000 \
/org/gnome/PowerManager \
org.gnome.PowerManager.setDpmsMode \
string:off
to make sure we can set the display to off. Please verify this completely powers
down the screen.
Thanks.
Created attachment 127065 [details]
test patch
And if that works, try this patch. Thanks again.
Sorry, but no the dbus-send command does not power off the screen like xscreensaver. That command does work properly on my desktop (i915 chipset and with gnome-power-manager 2.14) which has an external LCD display over a DVI connection. So I think it may have something with the way dbus powers down the LCD display on the T41p laptop. Can you set the correct mode with xset? Sorry, but no I can't set the proper mode with xset. However, I found this http://fdd.com/software/radeon/radeontool-1.5.tar.gz and it does allow me to turn off the backlight completely. radeontool light off radeontool light on work like expected. Now I am pretty sure that xscreensaver doesn't call this tool. So I am wondering if it has a work around or not. Perhaps you could add a radeontool option to g-p-m? Or maybe just call it if it exists? It does appear to check to ensure an radeon is installed. Richard, sorry, but I think I wasted your time, cause I am an idiot... I looked in my xorg.conf file and the aticonfig tool didn't turn on dpms for my monitor. I should have checked that. Anyway, I have enabled that option and both the xset and dbus options work now. I have also tested the gnome-power-manager 2.14 (shipping rpm) code and it appears to work too. Okay, glad it's all working now. |