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Cbeck527

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From: USA

Registered: 2009-05-25

Posts: 7

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X not listening to gnome-power-manager

Hello. I installed Archlinux on my Dell Vostro A90 (business mini 9) and it has been nothing but awesome. I took the plunge as a linux n00b and I've learned alot since installing arch.

There is one problem so far that I have not been able to fix. I installed GNOME and gnome-power-manager, and set it up to turn off the display after 20 minutes of idle. X doesn't seem to get the settings, and always shuts the screen off after 30seconds of idle. The only way that I can disable this is by completely shutting off the display power managment with

xset -dpms

and

xset s off

Does anybody know anything about this problem, or know how to fix it?

Here is my xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen         "Default Screen" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz-fonts"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/webcore"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/webcore-vista"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/local"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "i2c"
    Load           "bitmap"
    Load           "ddc"
    Load       "dri"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "int10"
    Load           "type1"
    Load       "dbe"
    Load           "vbe"
    Load       "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "SyncMaster"
    Option         "DPMS" "false"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Intel"
    Driver        "intel"
    Option        "DRI"    "True"
    Option        "NoDDC"    "True"
    #Option        "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"    "True"
    Option        "AccelMethod"        "exa"
    Option        "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option    "Composite"    "Enable"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "Intel"
    Monitor        "SyncMaster"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes      "1024x600" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       15
        Modes      "1024x600" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes      "1024x600" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1024x600" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    # Enable C-A-Backspace
    Option         "DontZap" "False"
    Option         "BlankTime" "0"
    Option         "StandbyTime" "0"
    Option         "SuspendTime" "0"
    Option         "OffTime" "0"
EndSection

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Dell Vostro A90 | 2GB RAM | 16GB Runcore SSD

cookiecaper

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Registered: 2007-09-22

Posts: 198

Re: X not listening to gnome-power-manager

Getting this too, but only with Gnome -- Openbox and Awesome work fine. I want to have this fixed.

cookiecaper

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Registered: 2007-09-22

Posts: 198

Re: X not listening to gnome-power-manager

Any new information here? Still having the problem.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: X not listening to gnome-power-manager

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=72948

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