Greetings,
This may just be a problem with my video card, but
I thought I'd ask since I couldn't find a definitive
answer from googling.
I noticed that none of the DPMS settings (Standby,
Suspend nor Off) would take effect at their designated
time periods. In short, X wouldn't shut-off my monitor.
Now I used to have a Linux system connected to this
monitor, and I am 100% positive with DPMS enabled, my
monitor would shut-off at the proper/expected time.
The interesting bit is that even though the monitor
isn't shutting down, X seems to "pause" (for a lack
of better term). I can explain it this way:
For example, if I lock the terminal using:
$ xlock -mode marquee
Marquee uses fortune to put up text on the screen (if
you didn't know this). After some time passing, with
no interaction with the system via keyboard or mouse,
the marquee would get stuck, or "pause" mid-sentence:
e.g.,
The opposite of a profound truth may well be ano
However, if you were to move the mouse the fortune
would continue from where it had "paused" (and this
could be many hours after its original "pause" time):
...ther profound truth.
-- Bohr
I'd like to clarify that this is not an xlock issue,
since the screen doesn't "blank" even if I don't run
xlock.
Since I produce this on two different DPMS aware monitors,
I can only consider either of the following: OpenBSD's
Xorg release or the video card.
Anyone else experience similar issues? If not, does
anyone know whether an "ATI Rage 128 Pro" video card
is DPMS capable? I couldn't find my answer using google.
Since there are so many posts of X{,org}.0.log out on
the net, searching using the "DPMS" as a keyword isn't
very effective.
TIA
--patrick
ps., I also cron'ed a script that would print `date'
and `xset -q | grep -A 1 -i dpms' into a file every
5 minutes. The output indicates that X is in fact
thinking (or being lead to believe) the monitor is
in fact transitioning though each of the states,
while in reality, the monitor is still on :-)
$ cat dpms_test.out
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Sep 29 23:05:01 PDT 2006
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Sep 29 23:10:01 PDT 2006
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Sep 29 23:15:01 PDT 2006
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Sep 29 23:20:01 PDT 2006
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Sep 29 23:25:01 PDT 2006
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Sep 29 23:30:01 PDT 2006
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Sep 29 23:35:01 PDT 2006
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Sep 29 23:40:01 PDT 2006
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is in Standby
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Sep 29 23:45:01 PDT 2006
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is in Standby
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Sep 29 23:50:01 PDT 2006
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is in Standby
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Sep 29 23:55:01 PDT 2006
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is in Standby
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sat Sep 30 00:00:01 PDT 2006
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is in Standby
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sat Sep 30 00:05:01 PDT 2006
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is in Standby
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sat Sep 30 00:10:01 PDT 2006
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is in Suspend
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sat Sep 30 00:15:01 PDT 2006
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is in Suspend
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sat Sep 30 00:20:01 PDT 2006
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is in Suspend
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sat Sep 30 00:25:01 PDT 2006
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is in Suspend
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sat Sep 30 00:30:01 PDT 2006
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is in Suspend
#
# dmesg.boot
OpenBSD 3.9-stable (GENERIC) #6: Thu Sep 14 21:07:51 PDT 2006
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2600+ ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class, 128KB L2
cache) 1.61 GHz
cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2
cpu0: AMD Powernow: TS TTP
real mem = 536387584 (523816K)
avail mem = 482422784 (471116K)
using 4278 buffers containing 26923008 bytes (26292K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(6b) BIOS, date 04/08/05, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfa120
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
apm0: flags 70102 dobusy 1 doidle 1
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xc4b4
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfc380/288 (16 entries)
pcibios0: bad IRQ table checksum
pcibios0: PCI BIOS has 17 Interrupt Routing table entries
pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 3 5 10 11 12
pcibios0: no compatible PCI ICU found
pcibios0: Warning, unable to fix up PCI interrupt routing
pcibios0: PCI bus #2 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000 0xc8000/0x4000! 0xcc000/0x800
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce3 250 PCI Host" rev 0xa1
pcib0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce3 250 ISA" rev 0xa2
nviic0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 "NVIDIA nForce3 250 SMBus" rev 0xa1
iic0 at nviic0
"unknown" at iic0 addr 0x2e not configured
iic1 at nviic0
ohci0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce3 250 USB" rev 0xa1: irq 12,
version 1.0, legacy support
usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: NVIDIA OHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
ohci1 at pci0 dev 2 function 1 "NVIDIA nForce3 250 USB" rev 0xa1: irq 10,
version 1.0, legacy support
usb1 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: NVIDIA OHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
ehci0 at pci0 dev 2 function 2 "NVIDIA nForce3 250 USB2" rev 0xa2: irq 11
usb2 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub2 at usb2
uhub2: NVIDIA EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
nfe0 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce3 LAN" rev 0xa2: irq 12, address
00:50:8d:7c:06:8c
ciphy0 at nfe0 phy 1: Cicada CS8201 10/100/1000TX PHY, rev. 3
auich0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce3 250 AC97" rev 0xa1: irq 3,
nForce3 AC97
ac97: codec id 0x414c4780 (Avance Logic ALC658)
ac97: codec features 20 bit DAC, 18 bit ADC, No 3D Stereo
audio0 at auich0
pciide0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce3 250 IDE" rev 0xa2: DMA,
channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <HDS722525VLAT80>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 238475MB, 488397168 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <_NEC, DVD_RW ND-3540A, 1.01> SCSI0 5/cdrom
removable
cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
pciide1 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce3 250 SATA" rev 0xa2: DMA
pciide1: using irq 11 for native-PCI interrupt
ppb0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce3 250 AGP" rev 0xa2
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "ATI Rage 128 Pro TF" rev 0x00
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
ppb1 at pci0 dev 14 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce3 250 PCI-PCI" rev 0xa2
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
xl0 at pci2 dev 7 function 0 "3Com 3c905C 100Base-TX" rev 0x74: irq 10, address
00:01:02:c2:a1:b9
bmtphy0 at xl0 phy 24: Broadcom 3C905C internal PHY, rev. 6
pchb1 at pci0 dev 24 function 0 "AMD AMD64 HyperTransport" rev 0x00
pchb2 at pci0 dev 24 function 1 "AMD AMD64 Address Map" rev 0x00
pchb3 at pci0 dev 24 function 2 "AMD AMD64 DRAM Cfg" rev 0x00
pchb4 at pci0 dev 24 function 3 "AMD AMD64 Misc Cfg" rev 0x00
isa0 at pcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
spkr0 at pcppi0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
lm0 at isa0 port 0x290/8: W83627HF
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
biomask ff65 netmask ff65 ttymask ffe7
pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled
uhub3 at uhub0 port 1
uhub3: ALCOR Generic USB Hub, rev 1.10/3.14, addr 2
uhub3: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
uhub4 at uhub0 port 2
uhub4: Sun Microsystems product 0x100e, rev 2.00/1.03, addr 3
uhub4: 4 ports with 3 removable, bus powered
uhidev0 at uhub4 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0
uhidev0: Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM), rev 1.10/3.00,
addr 4, iclass 3/1
ums0 at uhidev0: 3 buttons and Z dir.
wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0
uhidev1 at uhub4 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0
uhidev1: Sun Microsystems Sun USB Keyboard, rev 2.00/1.03, addr 5, iclass 3/1
ukbd0 at uhidev1: 8 modifier keys, 6 key codes
wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1
wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0
dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80
root on wd0a
rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
#
# xset -q
Keyboard Control:
auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000
auto repeat delay: 180 repeat rate: 30
auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf
fadfffdfffdfe5ef
ffffffffffffffff
ffffffffffffffff
bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100
Pointer Control:
acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4
Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
timeout: 600 cycle: 600
Colors:
default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0 WhitePixel: 16777215
Font Path:
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/artwiz-aleczapka,/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/mscorefonts,/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/
Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
File paths:
Config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Modules path: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
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