Bug 2726

Summary: lowering dpms power level turns monitor back on
Product: xorg Reporter: Jamie Zawinski <jwz>
Component: Server/GeneralAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: high CC: alan.coopersmith, jay.cotton, mmacleod, roland.mainz
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description Jamie Zawinski 2005-03-14 12:19:37 UTC 
If the monitor is in DPMSModeSuspend and I do
DPMSForceLevel(dpy,DPMSModeStandby), the monitor powers back on.
However, DPMSInfo() claims that the monitor is in DPMSModeStandby
(though it's really in DPMSModeOn.)

You can watch this happen with "xset" too:

   echo standby ; xset dpms force standby ; sleep 4 ;
   echo on ;      xset dpms force on      ; sleep 4 ;
   echo off ;     xset dpms force off     ; sleep 4 ;
   echo done

Note that the monitor un-blanks after either 4 or 8 seconds, and never actually
powers down.

xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)
Linux 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 #1 Thu Feb 24 14:00:06 EST 2005 i686 athlon
Xinerama with two Mitsubishi DiamondPro 2070SB monitors.
Comment 1 Roland Mainz 2005-03-14 12:52:06 UTC 
Moving over to Xorg component where this bug belongs to (ande CC:'ing someone
who may be able to help :) ...
Comment 2 Allison Lortie (desrt) 2005-07-19 15:37:20 UTC 
works great for me with the xorg currently in breezy
Comment 3 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:25:43 UTC 
Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.
Comment 4 Adam Jackson 2010-05-06 13:17:36 UTC 
wfm in F13, closing.  I suspect this was fixed long long ago, probably by:

commit ae935832facfa81a9689882406ecca74b0346790
Author: Fredrik Höglund <fredrik@kde.org>
Date:   Fri Mar 24 20:50:13 2006 +0000

    Refactored the screensaver and DPMS timer code to use the screensaver timer
        for both screensaver and DPMS. Removed the SetDPMSTimers() and
        FreeDPMSTimers() functions.

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