Where to find logs for dpms?

gee · 2015-10-11 04:15:33

Hello,

for years I've had a small issue, my video output will randomly turn black like in dpms mode, and as soon as I move the mouse, it turns back on.
This happens while watching movies with mpv, in certain games, etc... but never in xbmc/kodi.
I've tried to disable as much as I can powermode saving that could be related, but I wonder if I missed something, and so where may I find a log for this behavior?

In case it matters, I have a 280x radeonhd card, but had the same behavior with my old 4870hd, using the free drivers.

Thanks!

karol · 2015-10-11 19:21:54

What's the output of

xset -q

gee · 2015-10-12 05:33:58

Current value:

Keyboard Control:
auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000
XKB indicators:
00: Caps Lock: off 01: Num Lock: off 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: 660 repeat rate: 25
auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf
fadfffefffedffff
9fffffffffffffff
fff7ffffffffffff
bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100
Pointer Control:
acceleration: 20/10 threshold: 4
Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: no allow exposures: yes
timeout: 0 cycle: 600
Colors:
default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0x0 WhitePixel: 0xffffff
Font Path:
/usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,/usr/share/fonts/OTF/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,built-ins
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On

In the past I had tried with no success:

xset s off; xset -dpms; xset s noblank

Thanks!

karol · 2015-10-12 19:28:29

Read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Di … using_xset and turn DPMS off.

I'm using

# disable screen blanking
xset -dpms &
xset s off &

in ~/.xinitrc and my monitor stays on.

gee · 2015-10-13 22:10:22

I believe I had done that in the past, so I redid it and the xorg stuff, we'll see how it goes.
(I even installed xscreensaver to disable with xscreensaver-demo before uninstalling it again, I know useless...)

Thank you!

gee · 2015-10-14 06:07:30

Well so far it's been a bit less than a day, and nothing bad happened... let's hope.
If so, after at least 3 years of annoyment, you've saved me karol, thanks!

karol · 2015-10-14 23:53:25

FYI, the tty is still going to be blanked, because xset only takes care of X stuff.

gee · 2015-10-15 04:50:33

I've also taken care of that one with consoleblank=0
So far it's been 2 days and no issue...
So overall it looks good, at some point I'd like to understand though, how could blanking happen like a sec after I moved the mouse or typed something...

Thank you!

gee · 2015-10-15 07:55:41

Well no, it's no good in the end
I was playing a game (Victor Vran) and within the game, so maybe not even a second after I moved the mouse, it blanked

gee · 2015-10-17 21:30:48

Well since then it hasn't happened... so not sure what to think..

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#1 2015-10-11 04:15:33

Where to find logs for dpms?

#2 2015-10-11 19:21:54

Re: Where to find logs for dpms?

#3 2015-10-12 05:33:58

Re: Where to find logs for dpms?

#4 2015-10-12 19:28:29

Re: Where to find logs for dpms?

#5 2015-10-13 22:10:22

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#6 2015-10-14 06:07:30

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#7 2015-10-14 23:53:25

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#8 2015-10-15 04:50:33

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