Bug 328573

Summary:	With radeon driver and 2-monitor system Screen Energy Saving option doesn't work.
Product:	[Unmaintained] solid	Reporter:	alx.kuzza
Component:	powermanagement	Assignee:	Dario Freddi <drf>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	evan
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	regression
Version First Reported In:	4.11.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description alx.kuzza 2013-12-09 13:17:21 UTC

Note: there was no issue with a previous KDE 4.9 either with radeon driver or ATI proprietary driver.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Set "Screen Energy Saving" to predefined amount of time.
2) Don't set any screen savers or lockers.
3) Wait until a screen goes blank.

Expected result:
- Monitor(s) is completely turned off

Actual result:
- Monitor goes off for about 5 seconds, then it turns on for about 20-seconds, then go off agan and that cycle never ends.

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Configuration:
OpenSuSE 12.2, 64-bit, 
Intel Motherboard DQ77MK, 
i7-2600 processor
ATI FirePro 2460 video card with radeon driver with 2 monitors attached via a DisplayPort interface.

Same result with OpenSuse 13.1 installed fresh.

Note: with ATI proprietary driver when a screen goes blank it makes a garbage on both screens and the only option is to get to the console and reset to runlevel 3.

Comment 1 alx.kuzza 2013-12-16 17:27:31 UTC

I can provide an access to my system to verify settings and retrieve some logs.

Comment 2 Evan Leibovitch 2015-01-18 21:11:01 UTC

Doesn't work for me at all on Kubuntu 15.05 alpha. Screen energy saving doesn't do anything.
Same installation (Radeon card, two screens)

Comment 3 Jonathan Riddell 2015-03-11 19:18:10 UTC

This bug is reported on libsolid which is the kdelibs4 version of the solid library.  It is now in maintenance mode.  If you think it should still be fixed in the KDE Frameworks 5 version of solid please move it to or report a bug on frameworks-solid or Powerdevil.

Comment 4 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-04 15:46:45 UTC

Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years so I am closing this bug. Please try again with the latest version and submit a new bug to frameworks-solid if your issue persists. Thank you!