Howdy all. I recently did the emerge --update world business, and with
that came xorg 7.1 (was 7.0 before). So everything seemed to be fine
and dandy, but I've noticed that the DPMS for the monitor doesn't seem
to work quite right. I'm seeing this behavior on two machines (one a
desktop and one a laptop, so different types of hardware, etc.), so I'm
thinking it has something to do with some change to xorg itself, or
maybe a config file? The symptoms are slightly different on each
machine. On my laptop (intel i810 driver), the screen just never shuts
off anymore at all. It's just happy to stay on seemingly forever,
unless I shut it. The desktop however (nvidia legacy w/ CRT monitor)
sometimes works (meaning turns off correctly), sometimes flickers on and
off repeatedly until I move the mouse to wake it up, and sometimes just
never turns off. I hate seemingly non-reproducible problems! I do have
Option "DPMS" in the Section "Monitor" in my xorg.conf as well as this
section at the end:
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "StandbyTime" "20"
Option "SuspendTime" "40"
Option "OffTime" "60"
EndSection
The Xorg log doesn't have any EE's in it, but does have the following
warning:
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
And, of course, that file does not exist. I have no idea if that's
significant for my problem or not. revdep-rebuild says everything is
peachy. Any clues? Anybody seen this before? Thanks!
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