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amaro

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From: xfce

Registered: 2014-05-09

Posts: 367

[SOLVED] xset dpms stopped working

Hi everybody,

Since yesterday xset dpms stopped working.
After

xset dpms 2

nothing happens.

Here is the output of xset q

xset q
Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000002
  XKB indicators:
    00: Caps Lock:   off    01: Num Lock:    on     02: Scroll Lock: off
    03: Compose:     off    04: Kana:        off    05: Sleep:       off
    06: Suspend:     off    07: Mute:        off    08: Misc:        off
    09: Mail:        off    10: Charging:    off    11: Shift Lock:  off
    12: Group 2:     off    13: Mouse Keys:  off
  auto repeat delay:  500    repeat rate:  20
  auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
                        fadfffefffedffff
                        9fffffffffffffff
                        fff7ffffffffffff
  bell percent:  0    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  3/2    threshold:  3
Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  600    cycle:  0
Colors:
  default colormap:  0x52    BlackPixel:  0x0    WhitePixel:  0xffffff
Font Path:
  /usr/share/fonts/misc,/usr/share/fonts/TTF,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi,built-ins
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 2    Suspend: 600    Off: 600
  DPMS is Enabled
  Monitor is On

Any help is appreciated!
Thank you in advance!

Last edited by amaro (2018-08-22 17:31:55)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,435

Re: [SOLVED] xset dpms stopped working

What changed "yesterday"? Which packages were updated and lead to a change in behaviour?

amaro

Member

From: xfce

Registered: 2014-05-09

Posts: 367

Re: [SOLVED] xset dpms stopped working

The thing is yesterday I did not update any packages.
But I ran Syu a few minutes ago and then rebooted. Now everything is working.
May be some of today's updates fixed the problem.
Here are today's updates

Packages (42) bzip2-1.0.6-8  ca-certificates-20180821-1
              ca-certificates-cacert-20140824-4 [removal]
              ca-certificates-utils-20180821-1  coreutils-8.30-1  e2fsprogs-1.44.4-1
              expat-2.2.6-1  file-5.34-1  filesystem-2018.8-1
              fontconfig-2.13.0+17+gc78afa9-1  gcr-3.28.0-4  gst-plugins-bad-1.14.2-2
              ilmbase-2.3.0-1  imagemagick-7.0.8.10-3  iptables-1.8.0-1  jack-0.125.0-5
              jxrlib-0.2.1-3  ldb-1:1.3.5-1  libbluray-1.0.2-2  libmagick-7.0.8.10-3
              libssh-0.8.1-2  libwbclient-4.8.4-1  libx11-1.6.6-1  libxss-1.2.3-1
              opencv-3.4.2-3  openexr-2.3.0-1  openssl-1.0-1.0.2.p-1  pango-1.42.4-1
              python-pyperclip-1.6.4-2  python-setuptools-1:40.2.0-1
              python2-entrypoints-0.2.3-3  python2-keyring-13.2.1-3
              python2-numpy-1.15.1-1  python2-pillow-5.2.0-3
              python2-secretstorage-3.0.1-4  python2-setuptools-1:40.2.0-1
              smbclient-4.8.4-1  tdb-1.3.16-1  tevent-1:0.9.37-1  thunderbird-60.0-4
              vala-0.40.9-1  xterm-335-1

Last edited by amaro (2018-08-22 17:31:24)