DPMS/Radeon - screen keeps switching back on

Felix Kühling fxkuehl at gmx.de
Sat Jan 21 13:30:37 PST 2006


I'm out of ideas. It sounds like a driver bug. I don't use the Xorg
radeon driver here so I can't look into the problem. You should report
the problem at bugs.freedesktop.org and hope that someone looks into it.

Regards,
  Felix

Am Donnerstag, den 19.01.2006, 16:48 +1030 schrieb Kevin Shanahan:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:16:39AM +1030, Kevin Shanahan wrote:
> > Ok, here's what I tried with xev:
> >  - open up two xterms
> >  - in xterm 1, sleep 10 && xset dpms force off
> >  - in xterm 2, xev
> >  - move the mouse over the xev window to focus it; I get a bunch of
> >    MotionNotify events as expected
> >  - I press the space bar to mark my place (KeyPress, KeyRelease)
> >  - A few seconds later sleep completes and the screen goes off
> >  - A few more seconds and the screen comes back on again
> > 
> > There's nothing in the xev output after my spacebar KeyPress,
> > KeyRelease events. Are there any other type events that would cause
> > the screen to come back on?
> 
> Okay, here's something else I've noticed - xscreensaver does blank the
> screen and turn off the screen, although the backlight comes back on
> again shortly after just as it was for my manual 'xset dpms force
> off'. However, the screen does stay blank and the desktop doesn't
> reappear until I really do move the mouse or press a key. So, I'm
> becoming convinced that it's not an input event causing this to
> happen.
> 
> What about other ACPI events like lid open/close? Is there any way to
> monitor those while X is running?
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Kevin.
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