Bugzilla – Bug 167919
DPMS energy settings are ignored / lost in new kde session
Last modified: 2007-06-05 11:17:37 UTC
xset -q says: DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 120 Suspend: 180 Off: 300 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On Obviously KDE settings are ignored.
Created attachment 79156 [details] KDE settings (screen copy)
when are the settings lost? what did you do? does this happen after login? what applications did you run? did you start firefox already? any gtk/gnome application? gconfd running? did you login to KDE or to GNOME?
kpowersave overwrites that settings and makes them depend on the current state of energy providers. This is a laptop, right?
Midair collision: ;-) Was this a laptop? And was the machine on powersave scheme or the AC adapter removed? This values looks like the default settings in KPowersave for powersave scheme (Standby 2 min/ Suspend 3 min / Off 5 min).
so the bugreport is about the kcontrol module not syncing with the actual settings configured for the x server?
Maybe ... Btw. I'm not sure if this is something we want. The in kcontrol displayed settings are from the related kde config file and the module should not sync with settings set by any other programm directly to the X server. We already have discussed if it make sense to remove/disable the DPMS settings in kcontrol if kpowersave is running to avoid confused users, but for this we need to provide a replacement (a kcmodule) with kpowersave.
This is a laptop running on battery. I just logged on with kde*) and after two minutes the screen became black. xset showed the reason. If I set any of the screen settings (for example deactivate / activate) xset shows the right values. From the discussion above I have to define my settings on different locations if I am on AC power or not? *) By accident I have managed that kde skips the first interactive logon. My session is logged in automatically on startup. Where can I get back the default login screen?
(In reply to comment #7) > *) By accident I have managed that kde skips the first interactive logon. My > session is logged in automatically on startup. Where can I get back the > default login screen? Go to the KDE control center, open the KDM configuration, switch to root ("Systemverwaltermodus") and switch off autologin on the last tab. And please notice that bugzilla is not a support forum ;-))
New information: Now I have started with AC power and xset -q settings were: DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 600 Suspend: 1200 Off: 1800 The problem has nothing to do with power status. I have found and changed kpowersave settings. See screen copy 2. Thanks.
Created attachment 79434 [details] Screen copy 2.
*** Bug 169617 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Who controls screensaver options before any user logon? I still have a 2 min timeout here. kdm_greet seems to be the only kde program running.
the X server. But again: this bug is no support forum ;(
This also happens here (no laptop). KDE DPMS settings are only used if I toggle them off and on again and save. Right after bootup the monitor goes into standby after ca. 10 minutes. This should absolutely be fixed in the 10.1 final as this is a very annoying bug that also can damage your monitor if it goes to standby every 10 minutes.
Pleeeeaaaaaaaaase fix this bug BEFORE 10.1 comes out on Mai 11th as it is sooooo annoying!
thats impossible because 10.1 is already "done". However, we might backport the fix and provide an update.
Yes, please do so. Is there any workaround for this problem?
Is somebody working on this? What is causing this? Will this be fixed and backported to 10.1 soon?
Hello? Is there anybody out there? For 1.5 month now I'm lacking proper DPMS.
yeah, we hear you, but we don't want for your problems - there are plenty of things to do for us.
Sorry if I was too rude. I just thought this was forgotten about or something. But as I see you work on it. Thank you.
really don't see why the heck this is still assigned to KDE-maintainers. Danny, please change the configuration settings to not overwrite DPMS settings for performance scheme by default. This should fix 90% of the bug. 5% bonus points for fetching the default settings from kcmdisplayrc instead of inventing your own. I'll write a hackish patch that will disable the energy module when kpowersave thinks that it wants to manage DPMS settings. but for that we need an extended DCOP interface to kpowersave
Created attachment 90672 [details] kcontrol module launching kpowersave
Created attachment 90673 [details] extended DCOP interface to kpowersave
Danny, please review/add. if you plan to add this to 10.1, we can possibly slip this patch into kdebase3
Sorry for my rude behaviour. I just found out that I have to configure the DPMS settings via KPowersave. If I do it this way it works as expected. This only should be pointed out somewhere. It took me nearly three month to find out that KPowersave overrides the KDE Control Panel settings.
*** Bug 120286 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
update released for sle10
applied slightly adopted patch to KPowersave for next release for 10.2. Is the KDE part already in our packages?
yep, for CODE10 and 10.2 now.
I see no kpowersave part for this for sp1 yet?
Danny, can you please clarify the sp1 kpowersave state of this report?
submitted updated package for SLE10-SP1