| Summary: | Screen turns off after exactly 10 minutes, regardless of power settings. | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] solid | Reporter: | Garth Johnson <garth83> |
| Component: | powermanagement | Assignee: | Dario Freddi <drf> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NOT A BUG | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | sven.burmeister |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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| Attachments: |
powermanagementprofilesrc
kded4 output |
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Description
Garth Johnson
2012-01-19 07:31:09 UTC
Thanks for reporting. I need the following things to investigate: 1. Attaching your settings file - if you're using 4.8+, this is .kde/share/config/powermanagementprofilesrc 2. A log of kded4's execution, during which it would help if you plugged and unplugged your power adaptor. Note you need to enable all kdebug output (use kdebugdialog for that) for it to be meaningful. Created attachment 68013 [details]
powermanagementprofilesrc
I'm having trouble finding a kded4 log file.
Also, this is a desktop. Unfortunately there is none. You should kill kded4 and run it from the terminal, piping its output to a file. Created attachment 68027 [details]
kded4 output
Thanks for the information. I'll be on those in a few hours and will give you feedback. Actually, no - you are experiencing what appears to be a duplicate issue of bug 289760, but with different symptoms. Can you please update your installation to latest master and check again? (In reply to comment #7) > Actually, no - you are experiencing what appears to be a duplicate issue of bug > 289760, but with different symptoms. Can you please update your installation to > latest master and check again? I'm assuming the fix will be included in 4.8 final, or is there a fairly easy way to update to master in Kubuntu 11.10? Not that I know of. However yes, talking about released versions it'll be just in 4.8 final and not in any other pre-release Marking the bug as NEEDSINFO in the meanwhile (In reply to comment #10) > Marking the bug as NEEDSINFO in the meanwhile Thanks for your attention so far. I'll report back here when 4.8 final is released. Before 4.8 final, there might be another thing you can do to let me at least verify if you are affected by the faulty behavior described in the other bug. You should do the following: 1. Log kded4 as you did before during all of these steps. 2. take note of the output of xset -q (just the last 3-4 lines, DPMS (Energy Star):, are useful) 3. uncheck "Power management enabled:" in the battery applet 4. take note of the output of xset -q as above 5. check "Power management enabled:" again 6. take note of xset -q The three values of xset -q and the kded4 run while doing that might give a better insight on what's happening on your system New development. You're gonna want to hit me, but it seems that this whole issue was being caused by nothing other than the screen saver. I know that in the past that this actually WAS a power issue, as I made sure to disable screen saver before, but alas, it slipped my mind this time. This brings up a couple of points, though: 1. Screen saver is not being inhibited by videos as it should, which I will file a new bug about. 2. Why do we even need a blank screen, screen saver? Should this not be replaced by the standby mode in power settings? It seems to me that it would save alot of confusion to have display power management options also available in the Display and Monitors section of System Settings. Very sorry for the headache, Dario. I filed a wishlist about this here... https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292059 Doesn't really surprise me tbh, the relationship between screensaver and power management has historically been troubled (and I'd love if screensavers were killed at all), and don't worry, I surely don't want to hit you :) The good news, though, is that with some changes I've pushed to 4.8 this week (which SHOULD have been included in 4.8 final, but not sure) inhibition also inhibits the screensaver, and for example dragon player implements that (check http://drfav.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/some-news-and-improvements-in-inhibition/ ). Or, if you use the applet, you can uncheck the "enable power management box" and have the same effect. Now, I am quite confident this stuff was in time for 4.8.0, but in case it wasn't, it'll probably be available in 4.8.1. Thanks for your report! For those who still experience this the following might work: Edit ~/.kde4/share/config/kscreensaverrc and add: DPMS-dependent=false in the [ScreenSaver] section. |