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Bah, posted too early accidently. Report is: X seems to not have the dpms extension enabled when it starts up, despite it being in the xorg.conf, and being recognized by the driver. I see no errors in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but when I do an xset +dpms, or any other command that requires the X server have dpms functionality, I get error messages. More details: Fedora Core 6 install, completely yum updated as of now. In the xorg.conf, I have dpms turned on in the Monitor sections: Option "DPMS" I also tried Option "dpms" in case case sensitivity changed, but neither made a difference, and both used to work on earlier Fedora Core 5 and previous installs. In the Xorg.0.log file, I see that the option is read and acted on by the driver by lines such as: (**) Option "dpms" (**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled There is also a couple lines like the above for the other head of the display, NVIDIA(1) If I run xset q, the dpms section says: DPMS (Energy Star): Server does not have the DPMS Extension Likewise: # xset +dpms server does not have extension for +dpms option and so on for any of the other dpms commands. I've searched, but can't find anyone else with a mention of DPMS being always *off* (found some people having trouble with it being enabled no matter what).
Thanks for the bug report. We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue. Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. Could you please also try to run without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf whatsoever and let X11 autodetect your display and video card? Attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt as well, please. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 149076 [details] the xorg.conf requested
Created attachment 149077 [details] x log Note that dpms is enabled in the log
Created attachment 149079 [details] x log from default no xorg.conf Appears that DPMS is on using defaults... odd.
I've attached the files as requested. Note that in the time since I filed this bug, I have recompiled the kernel and also the video driver glue from nvidia. I get the same results in terms of dpms. It looks like there is an issue with XVideo as well (I do think XVideo worked at the time I filed the issue, but am not positive). When I submitted the original issue, I was using the stock FC6 kernel and xorg, yum updated to that day, plus the nvida driver closed source driver (which had always worked for me before, and reports dpms as enabled in the X log).
Thanks for the report. For users who are experiencing problems installing, configuring, or using the unsupported 3rd party proprietary "nvidia" video driver, Nvidia provides indirect customer support via an online web based support forum. Nvidia monitors these web forums for commonly reported problems and passes them on to Nvidia engineers for investigation. Once they've isolated a particular problem, it is often fixed in a future video driver update. The NVNews Nvidia Linux driver forum is located at: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14 Once you have reported this issue in the Nvidia web forums, others who may have experienced the particular problem may be able to assist. If there is a real bug occuring, Nvidia will be able to determine this, and will likely resolve the issue in a future driver update for the operating system releases that they officially support. While Red Hat does not support the proprietary nvidia driver, users requiring technical support may also find the various X.Org, XFree86, and Red Hat mailing lists helpful in finding assistance: X.Org mailing lists: http://www.freedesktop.org/XOrg/XorgMailingLists XFree86 mailing lists: http://www.xfree86.org/sos/lists.html Red Hat mailing lists: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo Setting status to "CANTFIX" (unsupported).
Well, after posting logs here and with Nvidia, and going back and forth trying lots of things, the what should have been obvious was pointed out. Look at my modules section in the attached xorg.conf file. Somehow my original list of modules had been truncated. In particular, extmod was missing. This caused the issue.