Ubuntu
gnome-screensaver package

  1. Bug #411350
  2. Comment #44

Comment 44 for bug 411350

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Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx) wrote : Re: [Bug 411350] Re: gnome-screensaver not functioning

On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 19:33 +0000, rfugger wrote:
> So, to sum up Kevin's post above (comment 42), the fix for this bug is
> for Ubuntu to apply the following two patches to their version of X:
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/patch/?id=db568f9eabf3450d8a023597ff007df355b13ea8
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/patch/?id=6b5978dcf1f7ac3ecc2f22df06f7000f360e2066
>
> This will stop X from resetting IDLECOUNTER when DPMS off is sent, which
> turns the screen back on right after it shuts off.

And will those two commits explain all of the different behaviours here
including everything works fine at times yet at other times, the
screensaver never kicks in and yet other times, the screen saver kicks
in but never DPMSes off?