DPMS and Ubuntu.

        In 6.06, DPMS worked as advertised. It'd switch off after a few
minutes if I wasn't using the PC, and things like MythTV and vlc/mplayer
could disable it while I watched movies and TV.
        In 6.10, this stopped working. There was some bug that made it never
turn off. I applied the workarounds given on Ubuntu's forums, and it
kinda/sorta worked most of the time.
        Now in 7.04, it's broken again. After a fresh boot, the monitor will
happily sit, turned on, slowly burning away the life of the backlight on
my LCD. If I run MythFE, mplayer, or vlc, the DPMS will sometimes kick
in after 5 minutes or so -- which is not what I want when I'm watching a
movie! If I use "xset dpms force off" -- it turns off the monitor, and
seems to get the system to start to power down the monitor after it's
idle -- but this applies regardless of whether or not I actually want it
(again, overriding myth/mplayer/vlc).

        Is there some documentation on what package ended up broken? Is it
Xorg? Something in KDE? It's very frustrating, and I'm ready to start
editing source and posting diffs.
Received on Sun May 20 13:13:27 2007