Bug 709120

Summary: IDLECOUNTER being reset on DPMS blanking
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Scott Dodson <sdodson>
Component: xorg-x11-serverAssignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Description Scott Dodson 2011-05-30 17:23:47 UTC 
Description of problem:
Today a few minutes after resuming my laptop from hibernation the screen blanked while I was typing and a notification applet appeared indicating a problem. The message displayed is 

"Session active, not inhibited, screen idle.
If you can see this text, your display server is broken and you should notify your distributor. Please see http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/08/17/gnome-power-manager-and-blanking-removal-of-bodges/ for more information. 

Based on that blog post it seems like xorg-x11-xserver has not been patched in RHEL 6.1 to address the IDLECOUNTER is being reset when it shouldn't be.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.7-29.el6.x86_64
gnome-power-manager-2.28.3-5.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
unknown

Additional Information: 
This occurred on a Lenovo T410 with Intel video. 00:02.0 0300: 8086:0046 (rev 02)


The blog post lists to these two patches which should fix the issue. Though I don't think these are relevant to the version in RHEL 6.1

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/patch/?id=db568f9eabf3450d8a023597ff007df355b13ea8

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/patch/?id=6b5978dcf1f7ac3ecc2f22df06f7000f360e2066
Comment 2 Adam Jackson 2011-08-17 20:38:06 UTC 
Both of those are included in the X server in 6.2, closing.  Please reopen if this issue reoccurs with a current 6.2 image.