[mythtv-users] dpms stops working after a while

[Yan Seiner]

Pat Pierce wrote:
> My system is set to shut down the monitor after 5 minutes,
> which normally works just fine, but sometimes it stops working,
> and the monitor will remain on, and I have to start turning off
> the monitor manually when I leave it on the mythtv menu screens.
> It will stay like that til I end up rebooting it or restarting gdm.
> It seems to me it happens after mplayer or something exits
> a video unexpectedly or something like that, but it's infrequent
> enough that it is hard to pin down exactly what the deal is. I'm
> using gnome 2.14.3 in ubuntu dapper drake.
>
> Is there anyway to make gnome periodically check and/or
> its dpms status without restarting gdm?


Known bug....  I can't place it right now.  I think if you root around 
the xorg bugzilla it's in there.

The remedy may be to upgrade xorg.....  Not sure without locating the 
bug report.

ISTR you can reset it by doing

xset dpms 5 5 5

--Yan