totem does not disable dpms

[ibotty]

Binary package hint: totem

totem does not disable the dpms, so the display goes black after a while.

this is new (and affects other mediaplayers) and did not happen before (jaunty, intrepid). a workaround is to set dpms off using:

> xset -dpms

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed May 20 18:11:51 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.26.2-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-5.6-generic
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-5-generic x86_64

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[ibotty (ibotty)]

yes, this is reproducible. just watching a movie will (after the timeperiod for putting the display to sleep as in power management preferences) trigger a dpms off of the monitor.

note, that the screensaver is disabled (tested by setting 15 min dpms timeout and 10 min screensaver). mplayer, which is more verbose, tells, that it disables screensaver, but the monitor will nevertheless go off.

just guessing, it may be not totem's but gnome-screensaver's fault (2.24.0-0ubuntu6).

(btw: this is a karmic fully updated from 20th may 09)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try if that's still an issue in current karmic?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information, maybe try this with lucid Thanks!

[ibotty (ibotty)]

i cannot reproduce this in karmic or lucid, as i have since switched to fedora (due to political reasons). sorry.