VLC 1.0.2 Goldeneye in Ubuntu 9.10 allows certain power managment features to go into effect. Most prominant is vlc's inability to stop the display from going inactive. If watching a video in vlc, the screen goes inactive.

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Binary package hint: vlc

Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10

vlc:
  Installed: 1.0.2-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.0.2-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.2-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 15 16:16:16 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: vlc 1.0.2-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.47-generic
SourcePackage: vlc
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64