Re: Monitor not shutting down

2011-12-02 Thread Sthu Deus
Hello, Christian: >> I'm pretty sure that when I reboot, it will work again, but I don't >> want to reboot every other day just because of this. So, how do I >> debug it? You can try xset command to be autorun at every X-session. To find out current settings use xset -q and there number of opt

Re: Monitor not shutting down

2011-12-02 Thread John Hasler
This may be an Xorg bug. I've noticed that after a long uptime X does not time out the video. Rebooting or restarting X fixes the problem. I use FVWM so in my case it isn't GNOME or KDE. I suspect that a counter is overflowing somewhere in X. This isn't new: I've been seeing it for years. --

Re: Monitor not shutting down

2011-12-02 Thread Mark Panen
On 02/12/2011 14:05, Christian Jaeger wrote: Hello I've got frequent pains with my monitors, that they don't go off when I expect them to after a 30' timeout (as set in the gnome power management options). First issue was (or was what I suspected to be) mplayer instances started by smplayer stil

Monitor not shutting down

2011-12-02 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello I've got frequent pains with my monitors, that they don't go off when I expect them to after a 30' timeout (as set in the gnome power management options). First issue was (or was what I suspected to be) mplayer instances started by smplayer still hanging around, so I kill them regularly, but