[Mageia-dev] Desktop monitor powering down

Tue Aug 7 19:48:31 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 07/08/12 16:08 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 08/07/2012 09:27 AM, Frank Griffin wrote:
+>> In current cauldron, my desktop system's monitor keeps powering down
+>> after a relatively small period of inactivity.  I've checked what's
+>> running, and the only two likely candidates I could find were sensord
+>> and upowerd, but I've killed both of them and it still happens.
+>>
+>> Any idea what's doing this ?  syslog, messages, and other things in
+>> /var/log give no hint.
+>>
+> The period of inactivity that causes this is exactly 30 seconds. I've
+> checked both Display and Power Management in the KDE tools, and nothing
+> is set which should cause this.  Screensaver is off, and so is any PM
+> setting that would do this.
+
+Try: xset -dpms?
+
+Dunno what else would be doing it tho'. Likely related to graphics card
+driver tho', so probably worth mentioning what you're using.
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