Description of problem: If gnome's screensaver & display powersave are both enabled, then it works as expected on the first inactivity cycle; on subsequent cycles, only the screensaver activates, but the display is never again put to sleep. If screensaver is not enabled, but powersave is, then the screen *is* put to sleep on each cycle. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-power-manager-2.26.1-2.fc11.i586 How reproducible: F11Snap1 updated to rawhide. Steps to Reproduce: 1. under System -> Prefs -> ScreenSaver: select the 'blank screen' saver; set idletimeout to 1 minute; check 'Activate screensaver' 2. under 'Power Management' set 'Put display to sleep when inactive for' 2 minutes. 3. (reboot and login) 4. wait 3 minutes, hit keyboard, wait another 3 minutes. Actual results: 1st cycle: after 1min screen blanks; another minute and screen is put to sleep. every cycle after that: only the screen blanks Expected results: powersave always working; a backlight left on kills batterylife. Additional info: "sleep 1; xset dpms force on" still works. I note that the gnome-power-manager release previous this one had more severe DPMS problems that this one attempted to fix (from the changelog). perhaps it's just a small thing? smolt profile: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_e72ad1ae-a8ce-42b7-afac-add43026ccee
2. under 'Power Management' set 'Put display to sleep when inactive for' 2 minutes, for when on A/C AND battery.
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
Hmm, my display hasn't gone to sleep since upgrade to f11 - I had 5 minutes configured in both screen saver & power manager. I am going to switch off the sceen saver now.
Same problem here as comment #3. Any ideas when the behaviour will get back to that from F10? I even went as far as to try the 2.27 gnome-power-manager to much the same effect.
I am closing this bug since I've managed to narrow it down and reproduce it more specifically in a new bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509660 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 509660 ***