[mythtv-users] dpms stops working after a while

[Pat Pierce]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:

> Pat Pierce wrote:
> > My system is set to shut down the monitor after 5 minutes,
> > which normally works just fine, but sometimes it stops working,
> > and the monitor will remain on, and I have to start turning off
> > the monitor manually when I leave it on the mythtv menu screens.
> > It will stay like that til I end up rebooting it or restarting gdm.
> > It seems to me it happens after mplayer or something exits
> > a video unexpectedly or something like that, but it's infrequent
> > enough that it is hard to pin down exactly what the deal is. I'm
> > using gnome 2.14.3 in ubuntu dapper drake.
> >
> > Is there anyway to make gnome periodically check and/or
> > its dpms status without restarting gdm?
>
>
> Known bug....  I can't place it right now.  I think if you root around
> the xorg bugzilla it's in there.
>
> The remedy may be to upgrade xorg.....  Not sure without locating the
> bug report.
>
> ISTR you can reset it by doing
>
> xset dpms 5 5 5
>
> --Yan
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ISTR trying the xset command before without effect.
However, the next time it happens, I'll give it a whirl,
and if it works, then a nightly cron job is in order.

Thanks,
Pat
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