DPMS is broken
Bug #193192 reported by
schmolch
This bug affects 4 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I use fresh gutsy installs on a nvidia desktop and a intel laptop.
DPMS works on neither of them, no matter what i do with gnome-screensaver or gnome-power-
If i use xset dpms manually the values get reset after a while.
Having alot of other bug-reports about that with claims that its fixed does not help.
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I guess that this is a duplicate of Bug #59589. Gnome-Power-Manager is connected to the screen saver idle time. DPMS works fine for me with my Intel hardware but it is correct that the xset dpms values gets reset after a short period. This wouldn't be any problem if the Gnome power manager has more flexibility.
You can test it through setting screen saver idle time to 1 minute and monitor sleep time of ac to 2 minute. With this configuration the Screen should go to sleep after this time. Btw. there are programs which prevent DPMS like especially video players.