Bug 500377

I realize that this could also be an issue with X11 not updating something based on keyboard or mouse events.  I don't know much about X11's current architecture, but I am running:
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.1-11.fc11.x86_64

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

I experience roughly the same, except that the screen saver does not actually kick in, but both monitors go completely blank (I think they power down). A mouse movement or key press wakes them up again. Sometimes this happens < 1 sec after the last keyboard or mouse action.

My screen saver is set to 5 minutes, the display sleep time is set to 30 minutes.

I'm running a standard Fedora 11 gnome desktop with NVidia Quadro NVS 295 using the nouveau driver and two Samsung 24" displays connected via DVI.

I've been running Fedora 11 since the beta release, and this behaviour hasn't changed since.

I can reproduce this bug with an IBM Thinkpad T61 and a Dell Mini 9. One of my coworker as well.

I have the gnome-screensaver set to blank screen after 5 minutes and I have the power management to shutdown the screen after 6.

I have the same problem. My HP L1955 monitor connected to a NVidia 7600 GS via DVI enters in *standby mode* even if I use the mouse and keyboard.

I am using:
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-180.51-1.fc11.x86_64.rpm (binary driver from NVidia)
gnome-screensaver-2.26.1-2.fc11.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.1.901-1.fc11.x86_64.rpm

I had the same issue with the Fedora 11 preview, but IIRC I was using the nouveau driver.

Sounds like the same problem here.

$ rpm -qa xorg-x11-drv-nvidia\* gnome-screensaver xorg-x11-server-Xorg DeviceKit-power gnome-power-manager
gnome-screensaver-2.26.1-2.fc11.x86_64
DeviceKit-power-008-1.fc11.x86_64
gnome-power-manager-2.26.2-1.fc11.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-185.18.14-2.fc11.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-185.18.14-2.fc11.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.1.901-1.fc11.x86_64

Dupe of 499061?

Seeing on my dual monitor system as well since upgrading to fedora 11, Quadro NVS 285 using nvidia driver.  This bug is slowly driving me insane.. guess since someone else is seeing it with the nouveau driver that it may not be an issue with the driver.

If everyone is in agreement, I think this bug is a dupe of bug 499061.

Try "yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update xorg-x11-server-Xorg
gnome-power-manager" and reboot.

The screensaver gets idle information from the Xorg server.

Could anybody who is affected by this bug provide information about graphics card they use, version of kernel, and xorg-x11-drv, please?

Thank you

NVidia Quadro NVS 295

kernel-2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.12-40.20090528git0c17b87.fc11.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.1.901-1.fc11.x86_64.rpm

The bug seems to be fixed, though. I've been running a more recent Xorg server for a few days and have not had any occurrence of screen blanking since.

The good version is xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.3-4.fc11.x86_64.rpm (was in updates-testing a few days ago).

Cool news! Could anybody else reproduce it and provide this information, please?

Thank you

Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates in various components of the Xorg system, which may have resolved this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade their system to the latest version of their packages. For packages from updates-testing repository you can use command

yum upgrade --enablerepo='*-updates-testing'

Alternatively, you can also try to test whether this bug is reproducible with the upcoming Fedora 12 distribution by downloading LiveMedia of F12 Beta available at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ . By using that you get all the latest packages without need to install anything on your computer. For more information on using LiveMedia take a look at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD .

Please, if you experience this problem on the up-to-date system, let us now in the comment for this bug, or whether the upgraded system works for you.

If you won't be able to reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.

[This is a bulk message for all open Fedora Rawhide Xorg-related bugs. I'm adding myself to the CC list for each bug, so I'll see any comments you make after this and do my best to make sure every issue gets proper attention.]

We are seeing this same problem in F10 which we are fielding until RHEL6 is available and we'd really like to find a fix or workaround, any suggestions? It's troubling that there isn't a specific change that is supposed to have fixed this problem.

(In reply to comment #16)
> We are seeing this same problem in F10 which we are fielding until RHEL6 is
> available and we'd really like to find a fix or workaround, any suggestions?
> It's troubling that there isn't a specific change that is supposed to have
> fixed this problem.  

Unfortunately Fedora 10 is not supported anymore (https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00014.html). Are you able to reproduce the issue with the currently supported (preferably Fedora 12) Xorg in the latest updates of the distribution?

If you are able to reproduce the issue with the currently supported distro, please, attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available), output of the dmesg command, and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link above.

Thanks in advance.

The bug seems to be fixed in F11 and not present at all in F12 here and on my coworkers laptops.

Don't know for F10.

(In reply to comment #18)
> Don't know for F10.    

Fedora 10 is not supported anymore.

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I think we can close this bug for now as it is fixed in F-11, F-12 and F-13.

If someone still encounter the problem, I welcome them to reopen this bug.


Thanks.