Greg Folkert wrote:
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 20:13 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 01:28 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
When I start X DPMS is working (monitor is turned off), however after
some time it stops working (i.e. monitor is always on).
[...]
fglrx-driver 8.31.5-1 (proprietary driver)
The first thing I would try to eliminate would be the proprietary
drivers. Try without them, and see if things improve.
but free drivers have no openGL so that's not going to help me, as
far as I know they are not similar at all so if I figure out that free
drivers work it won't shed any more light on proprietary drivers.
I checked http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/R300 for the status of free
driver, seems like the work is progressing but it's not ready yet (as
far as I can tell).
any other ideas? did anybody else notice that openGL (or somnething)
disables DPMS?
He said, TRY IT FOR A SHORT TIME. Not forever. It is a tried and true
troubleshooting method. Chnage one thing at a time until you find the
issue. It might not be the problem.
let's say I change it and it works (or doesn't) - what will that help me?
I am guessing that the REAL culprit is an OpenGL screensaver. Change
your screensaver to just "blank the screen" and then see if things pan
out or not. Also, if you are using the "GNOME Screensaver" remove it and
install the xscreensaver and xscreensavergl packages. There are some
inconsistent things that happen with the GNOME version.
I use xscreensaver, just tried xset dpms 10, works nicely, I ran
openGL screensaver (using xscreensaver-demo, then preview), it still
works. So it's not just simple openGL (might be a specific openGL
screensaver)
tried the same with game of Gish - that seems to disable dpms even
though xset q still says:
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 10 Suspend: 700 Off: 800
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
However DPMS is also disabled in similar way even when I do not play
Gish (I also sent support request to Gish distributor, they might know
something).
anyway, Sven posted another replying suggesting that r300 might work
pretty well with recent free driver so I guess I'll give it a chance,
might be good enough for Gish :-)
erik
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