<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Yan Seiner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yan@seiner.com">yan@seiner.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Pat Pierce wrote:<br>
> My system is set to shut down the monitor after 5 minutes,<br>
> which normally works just fine, but sometimes it stops working,<br>
> and the monitor will remain on, and I have to start turning off<br>
> the monitor manually when I leave it on the mythtv menu screens.<br>
> It will stay like that til I end up rebooting it or restarting gdm.<br>
> It seems to me it happens after mplayer or something exits<br>
> a video unexpectedly or something like that, but it's infrequent<br>
> enough that it is hard to pin down exactly what the deal is. I'm<br>
> using gnome 2.14.3 in ubuntu dapper drake.<br>
><br>
> Is there anyway to make gnome periodically check and/or<br>
> its dpms status without restarting gdm?<br>
<br>
<br>
</div></div>Known bug.... I can't place it right now. I think if you root around<br>
the xorg bugzilla it's in there.<br>
<br>
The remedy may be to upgrade xorg..... Not sure without locating the<br>
bug report.<br>
<br>
ISTR you can reset it by doing<br>
<br>
xset dpms 5 5 5<br>
<br>
--Yan<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>ISTR trying the xset command before without effect.<br>However, the next time it happens, I'll give it a whirl,<br>and if it works, then a nightly cron job is in order.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Pat<br>