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schwarzygesetzlos
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 Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 8:33 pm Post subject: DPMS not working properly (systemd + XFCE/MATE) |
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I swtitched from OpenRC to systemd which was surprsingly painless.  The only serious problem I have now ist that the DPMS of the monitor stopped working properly.
In MATE power management screenblanking time is set to 5 minutes. After that, the monitor gets switched off, as it should. but after a short time it is switched on again! When in an XFCE session the screen goes black, but never reaches 'DPMS off' state, the monitor stays switched on. I am running gentoo-sources-4.0.7, XFCE 4.12, MATE 1.10 (from open-overlay).
Any ideas what could couse the problem?
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schwarzygesetzlos
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| Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 10:03 am Post subject: |
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Bump.
Still not working and unable to sort it out...  |
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Roman_Gruber
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| Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 10:10 am Post subject: Re: systemd + MATE/XFCE: screenblanking/DPMS not working |
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| schwarzygesetzlos wrote: | (from open-overlay).
Any ideas what could couse the problem? |
unsupported because overlays.
overlay software tend to have "issues".
Hardware or Software issue.
when the monitor works as of now with another distro on the same computer without changing the hardware ti is software based.
and no idea how many systemd users here use "your" desctop environments, and how many use overlay based DE ... I doubt many, and so I think you just run into a bug and should report it there. to the maintainer of the overlay. |
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schwarzygesetzlos
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| Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 12:13 pm Post subject: Re: systemd + MATE/XFCE: screenblanking/DPMS not working |
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| tw04l124 wrote: | unsupported because overlays.
overlay software tend to have "issues". |
xfce-base/xfce4-meta-4.12 is not in an overlay, it's stable. As sys-apps/systemd-218-r3 is.
Only MATE 1.10 is in an overlay.
| tw04l124 wrote: | Hardware or Software issue.
when the monitor works as of now with another distro on the same computer without changing the hardware ti is software based. |
I agree.
So that's why I was testing if this behaviour shows up in another Desktop Environment too. Unfortunately it does. Both, xfce-power-manager and mate-power-manager have the same problem here.
| tw04l124 wrote: | | and no idea how many systemd users here use "your" desctop environments, and how many use overlay based DE ... I doubt many, and so I think you just run into a bug and should report it there. to the maintainer of the overlay. |
I simply thought it would be a good idea to ask here first, if some people have experienced similar problems because I ran out of ideas after some research. If I get no input, and can't solve the problem after some more research, I will of course file a bug. |
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schwarzygesetzlos
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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Mkay, this seems a more general issue...
Even if force the monitor off via | Code: | | xset dpms force off |
it turns back on again after a few seconds. And even if there is no xfce4-power-manager or mate-power-manager running...
On the other hand xset q shows nothing suspicious. | Code: | ef@supah ~ $ xset q
Keyboard Control:
auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000002
XKB indicators:
00: Caps Lock: off 01: Num Lock: on 02: Scroll Lock: off
03: Compose: off 04: Kana: off 05: Sleep: off
06: Suspend: off 07: Mute: off 08: Misc: off
09: Mail: off 10: Charging: off 11: Shift Lock: off
12: Group 2: off 13: Mouse Keys: off
auto repeat delay: 500 repeat rate: 30
auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf
fadfffefffedffff
9fffffffffffffff
fff7ffffffffffff
bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100
Pointer Control:
acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4
Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
timeout: 0 cycle: 0
Colors:
default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0x0 WhitePixel: 0xffffff
Font Path:
/usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,/usr/share/fonts/OTF/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,built-ins
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
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djsmiley2k
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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I wonder if you ever figured out what this issue is.
I have the same issue with xfce4 + openrc.
At first dpms will work, and then at 'some' random point, it stops working anymore and the screensaver will remain on 'forever' (I've left it overnight).
Even once dpms has stopped 'working' automatically, I can still call xset dpms force off and this works.
I'll wait now for tonight and see if forcing it manually first has some how fixed the issue but I doubt it.
| Code: | tim@MushaV3 ~ $ xset -q
Keyboard Control:
auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000002
XKB indicators:
00: Caps Lock: off 01: Num Lock: on 02: Scroll Lock: off
03: Compose: off 04: Kana: off 05: Sleep: off
06: Suspend: off 07: Mute: off 08: Misc: off
09: Mail: off 10: Charging: off 11: Shift Lock: off
12: Group 2: off 13: Mouse Keys: off
auto repeat delay: 500 repeat rate: 20
auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf
fadfffefffedffff
9fffffffffffffff
fff7ffffffffffff
bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100
Pointer Control:
acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4
Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
timeout: 0 cycle: 0
Colors:
default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0x0 WhitePixel: 0xffffff
Font Path:
built-ins
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 900 Suspend: 900 Off: 1200
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
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