Ahmed Kamal wrote:
Hi,
I'm on 4.2 beta2, and my problem is that my laptop's LCD never powers off
! It goes black, but the backlight is always on. I have removed
kpowersave, which I used to use previously, and now using powerdevil. It
simply doesn't turn off. The VGA card is nVidia, and `xset q` returns
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
Using, `xset dpms force off` does power off correctly. In fact, using
qdbus org.kde.powerdevilsystem /modules/powerdevil
org.kde.PowerDevil.turnOffScreen
also does power off correctly. So powerdevil is able to power off the
screen if it wants to .. then why is it not doing that ?! How do I even
start debugging this .. It is very annoying, as it's burning off hours
from the LCD's lifetime. Any tips are welcome
Nod, powerdevil has issues, and growing pains (ie, it doesn't go to sleep on laptop
lid close, for example, for me).
I'd be gently surprised if upstream weren't already aware, but please do file bugs
for issues such as these (or at least look to see if it's already been reported) @
bugs.kde.org.
-- Rex