Description of problem: For a long time, Xfce power-manager has not had any effect on my display power management; it doesn't do anything. No mater what settings I choose, my monitor never goes to sleep. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xfce4-power-manager-1.6.1-2.fc28.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: As I say, no matter what settings I try in the "Display" tab of Xfce Power Manger, the display never responds. Additional info: In the past, xscreensaver has been pretty good at turning off the monitor, but over the last two years, it has failed many times to work properly. After a few updates, it will start working again for a few months, and then, after some update, it will not work.
How is your monitor attached? VGA? DisplayPort? HDMI? Is there anything like a kvm in place or is it a direct connection? What video driver/card do you have there? Can you attach the output of: xrandr -q --verbose
Hey Kevin, Displayport. no KVM. AMD RX480, amdgpu; although, I had the same problem with previous card/driver, Radeon 7870/radeonhd, and with previous monitor. Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3440 x 1440, maximum 16384 x 16384 DisplayPort-0 connected primary 3440x1440+0+0 (0x5a) normal (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 819mm x 346mm Identifier: 0x55 Timestamp: 653276648 Subpixel: unknown Gamma: 1.0:1.1:1.1 Brightness: 1.0 Clones: CRTC: 0 CRTCs: 0 1 2 3 4 5 Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 filter: EDID: 00ffffffffffff0006b3513546130100 291b0104a55223783b62f5aa524ca326 0f5054bfcf00d1c0b300950081808140 81c0714f01014ed470a0d0a046502030 3a00335a3100001ae77c70a0d0a02950 20303a00335a3100001e000000fd0030 64979737010a202020202020000000fc 00415355532058473335560a202001f3 02031af14d010304131f120211900f0e 1d1e23090707830100001ab370a0d0a0 3b5020303a00335a3100001a539d70a0 d0a0345020303a00335a3100001a0000 00000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000e TearFree: auto supported: off, on, auto underscan 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clock 72.81Hz 640x480 (0x7d) 30.240MHz -HSync -VSync h: width 640 start 704 end 768 total 864 skew 0 clock 35.00KHz v: height 480 start 483 end 486 total 525 clock 66.67Hz 640x480 (0x7e) 25.200MHz -HSync -VSync h: width 640 start 656 end 752 total 800 skew 0 clock 31.50KHz v: height 480 start 490 end 492 total 525 clock 60.00Hz 640x480 (0x7f) 25.175MHz -HSync -VSync h: width 640 start 656 end 752 total 800 skew 0 clock 31.47KHz v: height 480 start 490 end 492 total 525 clock 59.94Hz 720x400 (0x80) 28.320MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 720 start 738 end 846 total 900 skew 0 clock 31.47KHz v: height 400 start 412 end 414 total 449 clock 70.08Hz DisplayPort-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) Identifier: 0x56 Timestamp: 653276648 Subpixel: unknown Clones: CRTCs: 0 1 2 3 4 5 Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 filter: TearFree: auto supported: off, on, auto underscan vborder: 0 range: (0, 128) underscan hborder: 0 range: (0, 128) underscan: off supported: off, on, auto scaling mode: None supported: None, Full, Center, Full aspect non-desktop: 0 range: (0, 1) link-status: Good supported: Good, Bad DisplayPort-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) Identifier: 0x57 Timestamp: 653276648 Subpixel: unknown Clones: CRTCs: 0 1 2 3 4 5 Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 filter: TearFree: auto supported: off, on, auto underscan vborder: 0 range: (0, 128) underscan hborder: 0 range: (0, 128) underscan: off supported: off, on, auto scaling mode: None supported: None, Full, Center, Full aspect non-desktop: 0 range: (0, 1) link-status: Good supported: Good, Bad HDMI-A-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) Identifier: 0x58 Timestamp: 653276648 Subpixel: unknown Clones: CRTCs: 0 1 2 3 4 5 Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 filter: TearFree: auto supported: off, on, auto underscan vborder: 0 range: (0, 128) underscan hborder: 0 range: (0, 128) underscan: off supported: off, on, auto scaling mode: None supported: None, Full, Center, Full aspect non-desktop: 0 range: (0, 1) link-status: Good supported: Good, Bad
Okay, so I have some more information, but I don't know what to make of it. I disabled the screensaver and set the power-manager to blank in three minutes and...it worked! The screen went blank and looked like it was in sleep. But, then, about a minute later, it came back to a black screen (not blank) and there was an OSD message saying "display port 1", as if the monitor had woken up, but it video was all black, not the desktop. It's like the initial "blank" DPMS is working, but then, there is a wake-up DPMS message that spuriously occurs waking the monitor up, or like the video blank mode switches to all black, which is obviously not the same and wakes up the monitor. Does this make sense? Any idea what is causing this behavior?
I tested again after kernel upgrade and I'm getting the same behavior. I turned on "quick power off in blank mode" for Xscreensaver and tested. When initiate xlock, the screen goes blank, and my monitor OSD said "displayport no signal", then it went to sleep. But, just 5 seconds later, the monitor came back on and said "signal on display port".
This is *still* happening in F29. It's been so long, I cannot remember when this problem started. Is there anything I can do to help?
Aha, I stand corrected. I keep getting screensaver power management and the power manager mixed up. I tested with screensaver off, and found that Xfce Power Manager *is* able to put the monitor to sleep. It looks like Blank, Sleep, and Off all result in power-save mode as the monitor detects no signal and puts itself to whatever state that is. But, so far, it doesn't come back on like it was before. On the other hand, Xscreensaver prevents all of that, so either I can lock the computer or have the power management, but not both. I'll open a different bug for that. Seems like progress, though.
Nope! I set blank to 25 minutes and it never turned off the monitor last night. I don't understand how this sort of thing can be intermittent.
This morning, I returned to find the monitor on, eventhough Xfce PM was enabled. I see that xfdesktop crashed twice since I left the computer last night.
It seems like xfdesktop is no longer crashing, so I re-enabled PM to manage the monitor power and it still does not work. When PM is told to manage the display power, the monitor never goes to sleep. Same behavior as before xfdesktop started crashing. So, we are back to where we started.
(In reply to Paul DeStefano from comment #9) > It seems like xfdesktop is no longer crashing, so I re-enabled PM to manage > the monitor power and it still does not work. When PM is told to manage the > display power, the monitor never goes to sleep. Same behavior as before > xfdesktop started crashing. So, we are back to where we started. That's too bad. With xfce4-screensaver, power management works well on both laptop and desktop for me. Do we have an upstream bug report for this?
Not sure, I will have to spend more time checking. I thought there was, but I cannot find it now. What do you mean by xfce4-screensaver? This is not a package in the Xfce Desktop DNF group. Hmm, okay, I have never seen or used that screensaver. I've always used xscreensaver, which also fails to control monitor for the last two years. Think I should try xfce4-screensaver?
xfce4-screensaver may be worth a try. You can install it from the repos. It's a rather new package from upstream (fork of mate screensaver) and I have not made it part of xfce group. That might change with 4.14.
xfce4-screensaver seems to work as a screensaver, but still no power management that I can see. I will keep testing though after the upgrade to Fedora 30.
FEDORA-2019-078370a14b has been submitted as an update to Fedora 30. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-078370a14b
xfce4-power-manager-1.6.3-1.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-078370a14b
xfce4-power-manager-1.6.3-1.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.