2009/3/23 Francisco Jerez <curroje...@riseup.net> > Daniel: according to your logs you have a monitor connected to the VGA > output, is that right or is monitor detection failing?
No, I just have my IBM thinkpad 1200 series and no external monitor selected.... For other tests, i can't do them before next saturday... > > If you really have a monitor connected, do you experience the DPMS problem > with the external monitor? > > Could you try setting: > > Option "UseBIOS" "off" > in your xorg.conf, Section "Device"? > > You could also try to build the current development version from sources. > To check out a copy from the git repository: > > git clone git:// > anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-siliconmotion > > -- > Screen blanks and freezes after a few minutes of idling, possibly due to > broken DPMS > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136853 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in xf86-video-siliconmotion: Confirmed > Status in “xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion” source package in Ubuntu: > Confirmed > > Bug description: > Since switching to Gutsy to verify whether the packages I maintain still > operate as expected, I have noticed that after a few minutes of idle > operation, the screen goes blank and cannot be returned to normal. The only > way to get screen content again is to reboot, which is possible either by > pressing the ACPI-enabled power button or a remote SSH connection. Broken > DPMS is suspected, although I have no way of confirming this. > > Purposely downgrading xserver-xorg-core and anything that depend on it, > then pining it to that version, while keeping all the rest of the packages > to Gutsy versions solves it, which suggests something related to X.org > upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3 might be at play. > > Note: someone on #ltsp mentions a similar situation using > xserver-xorg-video-amd, yet the exact same AMD driver doesn't exhibit this > behavior when compiled and used with earlier X releases. > -- Daniel Durand -- Screen blanks and freezes after a few minutes of idling, possibly due to broken DPMS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136853 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
