Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (171 mails)

[Fulup Ar Foll <Fulup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question:

Since I move to SuSE 8.2 my screen does not enter in Power-Save mode anymore,
To me more accurate it enters in Power-Save but exit this mode every 60 seconds
for half a second, which is probably the best way kill a screen !!!

Checking for "xset" options with "xset -q" I found out that both "DPMS" and ScreenSaver
option was set, it this normal ?

  extract from (xset -a) ----------------------------
  Screen Saver:
    prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
    timeout:  0    cycle:  600

HOTFIX, remove xset save screen option and only validate dpms.
   xset -s 0 0; xset +dpms; xset dpms 600 600 0

How to reproduce
  set your DPMS timeout to a very short value, either from KDE menu or from a shell
  example "xset +dpms; xset dpms 10 15 0"

  In my case the screen is blank after 10s and enter in power-save more in 15s, but it
  wakes up after 60s, and this until I change xset screen-save value with "xset s 0 0".

Question:

 1) Can someone explain me what is this "Cycle" in the xset option ?
 2) Did someone else already face this problem, did I made a error somewhere else ?

Note: I installed SuSE 8.2 on more than one computer and only find out the problem
when using a Nvidia GForce-4 graphic board, I also only see the error when running X11
but the error is present with KDE and in Failsafe mode.

Fulup